tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13598435693146040442018-05-24T10:25:24.808-04:0016 Miles of String - Andrew RussethAndrew Russethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15959643115598272012noreply@blogger.comBlogger498125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1359843569314604044.post-39598901425059546072016-11-10T10:02:00.001-05:002016-11-10T10:02:23.199-05:00Florine Stettheimer: A Map of Public Collections Holding Her Work<iframe height="622" src="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/embed?mid=1XwNERBMlxHFyaICN-6SKtiolPe4" width="830"></iframe> <br />Seeing a painting by <a href="http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources/exhibitions/treasures/html/73.html">Florine Stettheimer</a> is a rare pleasure, in at least two distinct senses. First, she was one of the 20th century's true originals, an avowed modernist who created humorous, sensuous, action-packed, rococo scenes of life in the United States. Her works are rich with white and pinks, depictions of friends and family, in-jokes and art-historical allusions. There is no one else like her. But second, she was not particularly prolific, and rarely parted with her paintings. When she died, in 1944, at the age of 72, she still owned most of her works, and it was left to her sister Ettie Stettheimer to decide what to do with them.<br /><br />Over the next 20 or so years, Ettie, and later, the family's attorney, Joseph Solomon, <a href="http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/columns/intelligencer/11473/">reportedly donated</a> about 45 works to 37 institutions around the United States, and gave another 50 to Columbia University in New York. After that, they largely sat in storage. But thanks to pioneering writing by <a href="https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/stettheimer-florine">Linda Nochlin and Barbara Bloemink</a>, and shows at the ICA Boston, the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/10/arts/art-view-the-very-rich-hours-of-florine-stettheimer.html">Katonah Museum of Art</a>, and the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/21/arts/art-review-extreme-artifice-directly-from-life-in-new-york-between-the-wars.html?pagewanted=all">Whitney Museum of Art</a>, in the 1980s and '90s, museums owning Stettheimers began to display them more regularly. (Lenbachhaus in Munich also organized <a href="http://www.artnews.com/2014/10/21/forcing-me-in-joy-to-paint-them-in-munich-a-rare-look-at-florine-stettheimer/">a remarkable show</a> in 2014, and the Jewish Museum <a href="http://thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/florine-stettheimer-painting-poetry">will stage another</a> next year.)<br /><br />Every time I visit new city, I try to see if a Stettheimer is nearby and pay it a visit while stopping by museums and galleries, but a few times I have had the painful experience of returning home and realizing that I had missed one. And so I have made a little map, embedded above, which shows where Stettheimers are located. It is not quite complete: I have worked off of checklists for various exhibitions featuring her work, but if you know of other places holding her work, please let me know. (A note: both Columbia and the Museum of Modern Art in New York own more pieces than I have added to the map, but I wanted to avoid crowding New York with dots, and it's worth noting that most of those works are rarely available to the public.)<br /><br />A few Stettheimers are also in private hands, mostly her elegant and amusing paintings of flowers, but also <a href="http://www.artnews.com/2015/04/23/the-new-whitney-museum-is-glorious-a-review-look-inside/"><i>New York/Liberty</i></a> (1918), which has been on loan in recent years to the Whitney and, most notoriously,&nbsp;<i>Asbury Park South </i>(1920), <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/27/arts/design/florine-stettheimer-painting-fisk-university-sold.html">which Fisk University sold off</a> to help shore up its finances a few years back. Here's hoping that the collectors lucky enough to own a Stettheimer consider finding a nice, loving home for it in a public institution.Andrew Russethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15959643115598272012noreply@blogger.com1560tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1359843569314604044.post-48101212011249839702016-10-23T18:57:00.001-04:002016-10-23T18:58:48.086-04:00Index, 2006–Present<i><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-A8c0j-ZCbog/WA0_jIZMSgI/AAAAAAAAx5c/F0z1Jwn_eLQGmZIJ0JgxrHXp0mR98_1GACK4B/s1600/4961385121_c077b95e79_o.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-A8c0j-ZCbog/WA0_jIZMSgI/AAAAAAAAx5c/F0z1Jwn_eLQGmZIJ0JgxrHXp0mR98_1GACK4B/s1600/4961385121_c077b95e79_o.jpg" /></a></i><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Douglas Gordon,&nbsp;<i>List of Names (Random), </i>1990–ongoing, on view at the&nbsp;Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, in 2010. The work is a list of every person that the artist can recall meeting. It continues to grow. <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/sixteen-miles/4961385121/in/album-72157625299626880/">Photo: 16 Miles</a> <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/sixteen-miles/4961385121/in/album-72157625299626880/">[more]</a></span><br /><br /><b>A</b><br />Michele Abeles <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/06/dis-magazine-herbalife-at-greshams.html">link</a><br />Joshua Abelow <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2013/02/art-los-angeles-contemporary-2013.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/04/working-title-at-bronx-river-art-center.html">link</a><br />Tisch Abelow <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/06/control-alt-delete-one-night-hkjb-show.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/04/working-title-at-bronx-river-art-center.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/03/wildlife.html">link</a><br />Marina Abramovic <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/03/marina-abramovic-at-museum-of-modern.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/11/mickalene-thomas-marina-abramovic.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/08/female-gaze-women-look-at-women-at.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/04/art-trend-open-flames.html">link</a><br />Vito Acconci <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2008/03/vito-acconci-centers-1971.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2008/03/vito-acconci-remote-control-1971_02.html">link</a><br />Franz Ackermann <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/01/goldman-sachss-franz-ackermann.html">link</a><br />Wayne Adams <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/06/control-alt-delete-one-night-hkjb-show.html">link</a><br />Bas Jan Ader <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/04/bas-jan-ader-im-too-sad-to-tell-you.html">link</a><br />Justin Adian <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/02/battle-of-brush-bryant-park-new-york.html">link</a><br />AIDS-3D <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/04/art-trend-open-flames.html">link</a><br />Ai Weiwei <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/04/1001-chairs-for-ai-weiwei-new-york.html">link</a><br />Ricci Albenda <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/10/photographing-judds-ryan-trecartin.html">link</a><br />Darren Almond <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/08/between-here-and-there-at-metropolitan.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2007/01/balling-with-matthew-mark.html">link</a><br />Paweł Althamer <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/08/public-art-funds-statuesque-in-city.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/07/as-long-as-it-lasts-at-marian-goodman.html">link</a><br />Afruz Amighi <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/03/afruz-amighi-cages-at-nicelle-beauchene.html">link</a><br />Laurie Anderson <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/04/laurie-anderson-from-air-photographs.html">link</a><br />Sam Anderson <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2013/07/sam-anderson-shuffle-puck-cafe-at-bed.html">link</a><br />Sörine Anderson <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/05/nyu-steinhardt-mfa-2009-thesis.html">link</a><br />Teppei Ando <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/09/100-records-100-record-covers-and-ed.html">link</a><br />Ant Farm <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/06/art-trend-cars.html">link</a><br />Polly Apfelbaum <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/03/dependent-art-fair-at-four-points-by.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/11/its-all-american-at-njmoca.html">link</a><br />Juan José Aquerreta <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/05/contemporary-art-in-madrid-part-3-of-3.html">link</a><br />Edgardo Aragón <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2013/08/standing-outside-tiffany-co-edgardo.html">link</a><br />Ei Arakawa <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/07/on-artists-that-quit-and-charlotte.html">link</a><br />Uri Aran <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/05/in-back-of-real-in-and-around.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/02/artists-institute-jo-baer-robert.html">link</a><br />Diane Arbus <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/08/new-york-photography-and-discoveries-at.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/05/contemporary-art-in-madrid-part-1.html">link</a><br />Cory Arcangel <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/03/dependent-art-fair-at-four-points-by.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/02/humidifier-art-crow-on-hirst-13.html">link</a><br />Edgar Arceneaux <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/06/greater-la.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/07/plot09-this-world-nearer-ones-part-2-of.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/07/plot09-this-world-nearer-ones-part-2-of.html">link</a><br />Maria José Arjona <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/11/maria-jose-arjona-marta-jovanovic-bosi.html">link</a><br />Nancy Arlen <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/11/nancy-arlen-in-zoom-shift-abstract-at.html">link</a><br />Arman <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/10/marcel-duchamp-art-of-chess-at-francis.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/06/art-trend-cars.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/02/destroying-cars-in-work-of-superflex.html">link</a><br />Fabienne Audéoud <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/10/abelow-and-bromirski-gaddafi-and.html">link</a><br />Tauba Auerbach <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/08/tauba-auerbach-brings-marble-to.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/09/blood-art-dirty-koolhaas-pigeon-art.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/07/going-shopping-for-tauba-auerbach.html">link</a><br />Aaron Aujla&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/10/160-km-at-kid-yellin.html">link</a><br />André Avelãs <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/01/andr-avels-and-headphones-show-at.html">link</a><br /><br /><b>B</b><br />Inna Babaeva <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/04/working-title-at-bronx-river-art-center.html">link</a><br />Milton Babbitt <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/02/high-modernism-of-milton-babbitt-and.html">link</a><br />Olivier Babin <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/07/as-long-as-it-lasts-at-marian-goodman.html">link</a><br />Lutz Bacher <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/02/artists-institute-jo-baer-robert.html">link</a><br />Jo Baer <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/04/orchid-sale-hedda-sterne-cinders.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/03/with-broom-we-can-even-fly-jo-baer-at.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/02/artists-institute-jo-baer-robert.html">link</a><br />John Baldessari <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/01/ten-us-museum-exhibitions-to-see-in.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/07/no-bees-no-blueberries-at-harris.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2008/03/video-art-2-john-baldessari-i-will-not.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2008/01/video-art-1-john-baldessari-i-am-making.html">link</a><br />Taylor Baldwin <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/04/not-way-you-remembered-at-queens-museum.html">link</a><br />Ivin Ballen&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/07/painting-expanded-at-tanya-bonakdar.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/03/wildlife.html">link</a><br />Antonio Ballester Moreno <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/05/contemporary-art-in-madrid-part-1.html">link</a><br />Lisha Bai <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/06/doubling-down-entanglement-at-regina.html">link</a><br />Martin Barré <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/08/le-tableau-at-cheim-read-new-york.html">link</a><br />Judith Barry <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/02/from-archives-40-years-40-projects-at.html">link</a><br />Robert Barry <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/01/robert-barry-at-minneapolis-institute.html">link</a><br />Gregory Barsamian <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/07/gregory-barsamian-private-view-at.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/07/tris-vonna-michell-art-of-noise-etc.html">link</a><br />Rachel Beach <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/02/sunday-evening-on-lower-east-side.html">link</a><br />Mark Beasley <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/06/summer-arrives-rose-kallals-lady-of.html">link</a><br />Gina Beavers <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/09/left-to-right-gina-beavers-washer-flo.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/06/price-good-market-inc-at-st-cecilias.html">link</a><br />Nina Beier &amp; Marie Lund <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/01/best-and-worst-art-of-2009.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/07/three-choice-chelsea-group-shows.html">link</a><br />Michael Bell-Smith <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/10/abstract-abstract-at-foxy-production.html">link</a><br />Joseph Beuys <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/08/eleven-sculptures-in-minneapolis.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/09/trees-as-art-and-george-maciunass-real.html">link</a><br />Sadie Benning <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2013/02/art-los-angeles-contemporary-2013.html">link</a><br />Katherine Bernhardt <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/10/spaced-out-on-time-at-canada.html">link</a><br />Judith Bernstein <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/05/down-and-then-out-18-murals-on-gates-of.html">link</a><br />Mike Bidlo <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/07/mutability-of-warhols-brillo-boxes.html">link</a><br />Black Dice <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/03/rirkrit-tiravanija-brendan-fowler.html">link</a><br />Jerry Blackman <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/07/living-and-dead-at-gavin-browns.html">link</a><br />Alison Blickle&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/02/battle-of-brush-bryant-park-new-york.html">link</a><br />Barbara Bloom <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/09/deborah-kass-barbara-bloom-and-bruce.html">link</a><br />Mel Bochner <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/07/graham-bochner-combination-1.html">link</a><br />Lee Bontecou <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2012/01/bontecou-at-freedmanart-cesarco-apes.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/06/lee-bontecou-robert-morris-ugly.html">link</a><br />Monica Bonvicini <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/11/its-all-american-at-njmoca.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2007/01/openings-abound.html">link</a><br />Keil Borrman <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2013/08/smrrebrd-and-courbet-laura-owens-and.html">link</a><br />Pierre Boulez <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2007/08/let-them-build-whatever-walls-someone.html">link</a><br />Louise Bourgeois <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/10/art-in-battery-park-city.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/06/louise-bourgeois-19112010.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/08/female-gaze-women-look-at-women-at.html">link</a><br />Andrea Bowers <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/06/greater-la.html">link</a><br />Martin Boyce <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2008/12/top-10-of-2008-8-martin-boyce-and-ugo.html">link</a><br />Travis Boyer <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2013/02/art-los-angeles-contemporary-2013.html">link</a><br />Joe Bradley <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/02/joe-bradley-drawings-at-journal-gallery.html">link</a><br />Sarah Braman <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/03/art-on-33rd-floor-in-times-square.html">link</a><br />Kerstin Bräsch <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/03/leopards-in-temple-at-sculpturecenter.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/07/no-bees-no-blueberries-at-harris.html">link</a><br />Judith Braun <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/05/hkjb-personal-abstraction-photographs.html">link</a><br />George Brecht <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/01/mysterious-orange-tribute-at-moma.html">link</a><br />Ethan Breckenridge <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/03/art-on-33rd-floor-in-times-square.html">link</a><br />Patrick Brennan <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/04/working-title-at-bronx-river-art-center.html">link</a><br />Freddie Brice <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/03/dependent-art-fair-at-four-points-by.html">link</a><br />AA Bronson and Peter Hobbs <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/07/plot09-this-world-nearer-ones-part-2-of.html">link</a><br />Marcel Broodthaers <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/09/robert-barrys-linguistic-wallpaper-nam.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/09/parrots-of-marcel-broodthaers.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/12/marcel-broodthaerss-parrot-at-peter.html">link</a><br />Amanda Browder <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/06/amanda-browders-future-phenomena-in.html">link</a><br />Trisha Brown <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/06/after-38-years-trisha-browns-roof-piece.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/01/trisha-brown-from-manhattans-roofs-to.html">link</a><br />Bruce High Quality Foundation <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/07/from-back-room-to-fire-escape.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/07/plot09-this-world-nearer-ones-part-2-of.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/06/art-trend-cars.html">link</a><br />Angela Bulloch <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/05/contemporary-art-in-madrid-part-1.html">link</a><br />Chris Burden <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/06/art-trend-cars.html">link</a><br />Ernesto Burgos <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/06/control-alt-delete-one-night-hkjb-show.html">link</a><br />Kathe Burkhart <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/08/female-gaze-women-look-at-women-at.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/02/from-archives-40-years-40-projects-at.html">link</a><br />A. K. Burns <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/03/dependent-art-fair-at-four-points-by.html">link</a><br />Andrew Bush <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/06/art-trend-cars.html">link</a><br /><br /><b>C</b><br />John Cage <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/02/cage-in-kitchen-john-cages-cookie.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2007/08/let-them-build-whatever-walls-someone.html">link</a><br />Santiago Calatrava <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/01/santiago-calatravas-liege-guillemins.html">link</a><br />Alexander Calder <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/08/photographers-on-20-somethings-djurberg.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/08/eleven-sculptures-in-minneapolis.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/08/remembering-tony-rosenthal-remembering.html">link</a><br />Sophie Calle <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/04/photographs.html">link</a><br />Matteo Callegari <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/02/artists-institute-jo-baer-robert.html">link</a><br />Robin Cameron <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/09/harvest-moon-at-425-oceanview-avenue.html">link</a><br />Elaine Cameron-Weir&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/10/160-km-at-kid-yellin.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/09/harvest-moon-at-425-oceanview-avenue.html">link</a><br />Nina Canell <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/03/leopards-in-temple-at-sculpturecenter.html">link</a><br />Borden Capalino <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/03/dependent-art-fair-at-four-points-by.html">link</a><br />Cornelius Cardew <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/02/brian-lund-very-real-and-very-dark-time.html">link</a><br />E. A. Carmean, Jr. <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/08/before-artists-sandwiches-sandwiches-of.html">link</a><br />Anthony Caro <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/05/anthony-caro-mets-roof-and-greenberg.html">link</a><br />Lien Carrazana <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/05/contemporary-art-in-madrid-part-2.html">link</a><br />Maurizio Cattelan <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/10/marcel-duchamp-art-of-chess-at-francis.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/10/cattelans-hand-noble-websters-classics.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/02/unruly-history-of-readymade-at-jumex.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/01/rirkrit-tiravanija-reflection-at.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/01/philippe-parreno-at-guggenheim-art-of.html">link</a><br />Nick Cave <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/03/five-favorites-at-2010-armory-show.html">link</a><br />Matthew Cerletty <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/07/living-and-dead-at-gavin-browns.html">link</a><br />Paul Cézanne <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2007/01/quick-art-1.html">link</a><br />Alejandro Cesarco <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/07/three-choice-chelsea-group-shows.html">link</a><br />Matthew Chambers <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/06/greater-la.html">link</a><br />Paul Chan <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/04/pig-presents-at-deitch-projects-long.html">link</a><br />Patty Chang <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/10/youthful-aa-bronson-cleaning-wheeler.html">link</a><br />Kris Chatterson <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/04/working-title-at-bronx-river-art-center.html">link</a><br />Howie Chen <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/03/dependent-art-fair-at-four-points-by.html">link</a><br />Olga Chernysheva <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/07/pencil-show-at-foxy-production-new-york.html">link</a><br />Christopher Chiappa <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/04/thurston-moores-sassy-advice-hunting.html">link</a><br />David Choi <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/07/living-and-dead-at-gavin-browns.html">link</a><br />Heman Chong <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/07/no-bees-no-blueberries-at-harris.html">link</a><br />Brian Clifton <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/06/dis-magazine-herbalife-at-greshams.html">link</a><br />Chuck Close <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/10/chuck-close-and-cheese-doodles-artists.html">link</a><br />Kyle Clyde <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/01/tom-thayer-scenographic-play-at-tracy.html">link</a><br />Tyler Coburn <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/07/no-bees-no-blueberries-at-harris.html">link</a><br />Dan Colen <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/09/dan-colen-channels-john-cage.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://observer.com/2010/07/sober-after-the-myth/">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/06/art-trend-cars.html">link</a><br />Peter Coffin <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/11/its-all-american-at-njmoca.html">link</a><br />Graham Collins <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/07/from-back-room-to-fire-escape.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/06/control-alt-delete-one-night-hkjb-show.html">link</a><br />Susan Collis <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/08/susan-collis-makes-mess.html">link</a><br />Gianna Commito <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/02/sunday-evening-on-lower-east-side.html">link</a><br />George Condo <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/07/living-and-dead-at-gavin-browns.html">link</a><br />Keith Connolly <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2012/03/performance-by-thomas-kovachevich-at.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/01/tom-thayer-scenographic-play-at-tracy.html">link</a><br />Caleb Considine <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/01/tom-thayer-scenographic-play-at-tracy.html">link</a><br />Vince Contarino <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/06/control-alt-delete-one-night-hkjb-show.html">link</a><br />Cooper <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/05/miami-noir-at-invisible-exports.html">link</a><br />Anne-Lise Coste <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/06/doubling-down-entanglement-at-regina.html">link</a><br />Will Cotton <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/09/will-cotton-cupcakes-and-charity.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/11/will-cotton-bakery-at-partners-spade.html">link</a><br />Jessica Craig-Martin <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/02/from-archives-40-years-40-projects-at.html">link</a><br />Tony Cragg <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/10/art-in-battery-park-city.html">link</a><br />Ann Craven <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/07/no-bees-no-blueberries-at-harris.html">link</a><br />Martin Creed <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/11/its-all-american-at-njmoca.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/08/rules-for-openings-matta-clark.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/08/martin-creeds-marble-floor-to-become.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/05/martin-creed-at-gavin-browns-enterprise.html">link</a><br />Cody Critcheloe <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/09/cody-critcheloe-ssion-boy-at-hole.html">link</a><br />Zoe Crosher <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/02/zoe-crosher-unraveling-of-michelle.html">link</a><br />R. Crumb <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/10/r-crumb-drawing-and-tree-in-chelsea.html">link</a><br />Robert Cuoghi <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/04/pig-presents-at-deitch-projects-long.html">link</a><br />Aaron Curry <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/08/flowers-for-summer-at-michael-werner.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/08/public-art-funds-statuesque-in-city.html">link</a><br />Joy Curtis <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/04/working-title-at-bronx-river-art-center.html">link</a><br /><br /><b>D</b><br />Alex Da Corte <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/08/alex-da-cortes-flowers.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/03/dependent-art-fair-at-four-points-by.html">link</a><br />Allan D'Arcangelo <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/06/ninth-street-allan-darcangelo-19682010.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/08/100-de-maria-kim-gordon-daily-nyc.html">link</a><br />Das Institut <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/07/no-bees-no-blueberries-at-harris.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/03/leopards-in-temple-at-sculpturecenter.html">link</a><br />Davis/Langlois <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/07/from-back-room-to-fire-escape.html">link</a><br />Sean Dack <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/03/art-on-33rd-floor-in-times-square.html">link</a><br />Salvador Dalí <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/10/marcel-duchamp-art-of-chess-at-francis.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/04/starry-night-and-persistence-of-memory.html">link</a><br />Hanne Darboven <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2008/12/top-ten-of-2008-10-panza-collection-at.html">link</a><br />Moyra Davey <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/07/three-choice-chelsea-group-shows.html">link</a><br />Tacita Dean <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/07/as-long-as-it-lasts-at-marian-goodman.html">link</a><br />Manon de Boer <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/07/three-choice-chelsea-group-shows.html">link</a><br />Guy Debord <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/03/guy-debord-panegyric.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2008/04/from-debords-critique-de-la-sparation.html">link</a><br />Michel de Broin <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/03/this-has-been-at-on-stellar-rays-review.html">link</a><br />Nancy de Holl <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/02/sunday-evening-on-lower-east-side.html">link</a><br />Matt Deleget <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/04/working-title-at-bronx-river-art-center.html">link</a><br />Anne Deleport <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/03/this-has-been-at-on-stellar-rays-review.html">link</a><br />Walter De Maria <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/11/walter-de-marias-equal-area-series-in.html">link</a><br />Joe Denardo <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/06/summer-arrives-rose-kallals-lady-of.html">link</a><br />Liz Deschenes <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/06/liz-deschenes-tilt-swing-at-miguel.html">link</a><br />Louise Despont&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/06/doubling-down-entanglement-at-regina.html">link</a><br />Philip-Lorca diCorcia <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/03/ending-dicorcia-borremans-xylor-jane.html">link</a><br />Mark Dion <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/10/work-by-robert-kinmont-handstand-master.html">link</a><br />Jim Dine <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/10/art-in-battery-park-city.html">link</a><br />Dis <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/06/dis-magazine-herbalife-at-greshams.html">link</a><br />Mark di Suvero <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/06/mark-di-suvero-on-governors-island-or.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/08/eleven-sculptures-in-minneapolis.html">link</a><br />Nathalie Djurberg <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2008/12/nathalie-djurberg-at-zach-feuer-gallery.html">link</a><br />Hansjoerg Dobliar <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2013/02/art-los-angeles-contemporary-2013.html">link</a><br />Peter Doig <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/08/flowers-for-summer-at-michael-werner.html">link</a><br />Willi Dorner <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/11/willi-dorners-bodies-in-urban-spaces-in.html">link</a><br />Jim Drain <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/04/pig-presents-at-deitch-projects-long.html">link</a><br />Dr. Lakra <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/02/dr-lakra-at-drawing-center.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/07/sex-drugs-tribal-art-and-dr-lakra.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/03/kurimanzutto-inaugural-exhibition.html">link</a><br />Marcel Duchamp <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/12/henry-mcbride-duchamp-and-private.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/06/16-miles-of-string-relaunch.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/10/marcel-duchamp-art-of-chess-at-francis.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/02/high-modernism-of-milton-babbitt-and.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2007/01/welcome.html">link</a><br />Sam Durant <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/04/sam-durant-dead-labor-day-at-paula.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2008/12/sam-durant-on-top-of-paula-cooper.html">link</a><br />Jimmie Durham <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/10/work-by-robert-kinmont-handstand-master.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/08/remembering-tony-rosenthal-remembering.html">link</a><br />Marcel Dzama <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2008/12/dzama-bergdoll-neuberger-on-2009.html">link</a><br />DZINE <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/06/art-trend-cars.html">link</a><br /><br /><b>E</b><br />Maria Eichhorn <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/04/photographs.html">link</a><br />Nezaket Ekici <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/09/in-studio-dark-chocolate-sandwich.html">link</a><br />Olafur Eliasson <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2008/07/blog-post.html">link</a><br />Elmgreen &amp; Dragset <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/05/down-and-then-out-18-murals-on-gates-of.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2008/12/adrian-searle-and-microphone.html">link</a><br />Tracey Emin <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/03/dependent-art-fair-at-four-points-by.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/06/art-trend-cars.html">link</a><br />Leandro Erlich <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/11/mickalene-thomas-marina-abramovic.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/05/contemporary-art-in-madrid-part-3-of-3.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/01/leandro-erlichs-swimming-pool-stay-at.html">link</a><br />Dick Evans <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/07/pencil-show-at-foxy-production-new-york.html">link</a><br />Walker Evans <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/08/new-york-photography-and-discoveries-at.html">link</a><br />Kota Ezawa <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/07/three-choice-chelsea-group-shows.html">link</a><br /><br /><b>F</b><br />Matias Faldbakken <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2013/04/matias-faldbakken-at-documenta-13.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/02/matias-faldbakken-television-moonshine.html">link</a><br />Sam Falls&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/07/all-falls-down-sam-falls-and-nick-van.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/06/picasso-and-arianna-kroner-and.html">link</a><br />Anoka Faruqee <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/02/battle-of-brush-bryant-park-new-york.html">link</a><br />Alaina Feldman <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/06/dis-magazine-herbalife-at-greshams.html">link</a><br />Tony Feher <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/10/chuck-close-and-cheese-doodles-artists.html">link</a><br />Rachel Feinstein <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/07/living-and-dead-at-gavin-browns.html">link</a><br />Gerald Ferguson <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2012/02/choral-reading-by-gerald-ferguson-at.html">link</a><br />Ana Teresa Fernández <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/06/photographs.html">link</a><br />Jackie Ferrara <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/08/eleven-sculptures-in-minneapolis.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/12/minneapolis-sculpture-garden.html">link</a><br />Keltie Ferris <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/04/working-title-at-bronx-river-art-center.html">link</a><br />Fierce Pussy <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/09/ed-ruschas-college-joys-doig-discovers.html">link</a><br />Radamés “Juni” Figueroa <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/03/dependent-art-fair-at-four-points-by.html">link</a><br />Robert Filliou <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/02/artists-institute-jo-baer-robert.html">link</a><br />Spencer Finch <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/06/art-in-strange-places-etc-collected.html">link</a><br />R.M. Fischer&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/10/art-in-battery-park-city.html">link</a><br />Urs Fischer&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/04/art-trend-open-flames.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/01/sol-lewitt-at-walker-art-center-in.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2008/12/top-10-of-2008-5-schweiz-ber-alles-at.html">link</a><br />Fischerspooner&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/11/fischerspooner-at-moma-100-years-at-ps1.html">link</a><br />Fischli/Weiss <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/01/advice-for-new-year-from-fischli-weiss.html">link</a><br />Stacy Fisher <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/06/price-good-market-inc-at-st-cecilias.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/06/control-alt-delete-one-night-hkjb-show.html">link</a><br />Dan Flavin <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/10/otto-pienes-party-room-duchamp-and.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/12/dan-flavin-series-and-progressions-at.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/11/dias-dan-flavin-institute-photographs.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/08/6-works-6-rooms-at-david-zwirner.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/06/art-trend-cars.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2008/05/dan-flavin-1964-green-gallery.html">link</a><br />Mark Flood <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2013/02/art-los-angeles-contemporary-2013.html">link</a><br />Ryan Foerster <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2013/02/art-los-angeles-contemporary-2013.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/09/harvest-moon-at-425-oceanview-avenue.html">link</a><br />Lucie Fontaine <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2013/02/art-los-angeles-contemporary-2013.html">link</a><br />Lucio Fontana <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/03/lucio-fontana-paintings-1956-1968-at.html">link</a><br />Thomas Fougeirol <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/05/stone-soup-esther-klas-and-thomas.html">link</a><br />Brendan Fowler <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/04/not-way-you-remembered-at-queens-museum.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/03/rirkrit-tiravanija-brendan-fowler.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/02/sunday-evening-on-lower-east-side.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/11/its-all-american-at-njmoca.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/10/brendan-fowler-james-hyde-jacob-kassay.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/08/6-works-6-rooms-at-david-zwirner.html">link</a><br />Leonard Freed <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/08/new-york-photography-and-discoveries-at.html">link</a><br />Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/07/going-shopping-for-tauba-auerbach.html">link</a><br />Casper David Friedrich&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/01/huang-xi-at-asia-song-society.html">link</a><br />Joachim "YoYo" Friedrich <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/03/every-single-day-joachim-yoyo-friedrich.html">link</a><br />Martha Friedman <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/01/pat-stiers-line-in-video-katharina.html">link</a><br />Dan Friel <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/03/rirkrit-tiravanija-brendan-fowler.html">link</a><br />Joe Fyfe <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/08/le-tableau-at-cheim-read-new-york.html">link</a><br /><br /><b>G</b><br />Gabriel Galeano <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/06/photographs.html">link</a><br />Ryan Gander <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/09/ryan-ganders-double-or-triple-threat-in.html">link</a><br />Frank Gehry <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/08/weisman-expands-tour-of-lacma-west-etc.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/08/eleven-sculptures-in-minneapolis.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/12/minneapolis-sculpture-garden.html">link</a><br />Gelitin <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/01/gelitin-blind-sculpture-in-progress-at.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/04/pig-presents-at-deitch-projects-long.html">link</a><br />Gaylen Gerber <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/06/gaylen-gerber-joe-scanlan-at-wallspace.html">link</a><br />Lukas Geronimas&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/10/160-km-at-kid-yellin.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/09/harvest-moon-at-425-oceanview-avenue.html">link</a><br />Simryn Gill <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2013/02/art-los-angeles-contemporary-2013.html">link</a><br />Liam Gillick <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/02/artists-institute-jo-baer-robert.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/05/contemporary-art-in-madrid-part-1.html">link</a><br />Kate Gilmore <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/05/kate-gilmore-walk-walk-2010-review.html">link</a><br />Shaun Gladwell <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/07/three-choice-chelsea-group-shows.html">link</a><br />Liz Glynn <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/06/greater-la.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/05/interviews-and-speechs-of-dave-hickey.html">link</a><br />Rochelle Goldberg <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/10/160-km-at-kid-yellin.html">link</a><br />Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/04/light-touch-dominique-gonzalezfoersters.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/09/dominique-gonzalez-foerster-chronotapes.html">link</a><br />Félix González-Torres <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/08/between-here-and-there-at-metropolitan.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/06/optimism-in-felix-gonzalez-torres.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/02/felix-gonzalez-torres-at-wiels-in.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/07/happy-independence-day.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/02/from-archives-40-years-40-projects-at.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/01/flix-gonzlez-torres-and-go-go-dancers.html">link</a><br />Douglas Gordon <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/09/barry-mcgee-and-josh-lazcano-at-houston.html">link</a><br />Kim Gordon <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/05/kim-gordon-and-jutta-koether-promise-of.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/05/theoretical-girls-kim-gordon-and.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/02/from-archives-40-years-40-projects-at.html">link</a><br />Meghan Gordon <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/05/soho-v-berlin-wave-hill-public-art-in.html">link</a><br />Antony Gormley <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/08/antony-gormley-is-drowning-or-its-small.html">link</a><br />Michelle Grabner <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2013/02/art-los-angeles-contemporary-2013.html">link</a><br />Dan Graham <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/08/eleven-sculptures-in-minneapolis.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/12/minneapolis-sculpture-garden.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/07/rock-my-religion-at-whitney.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/07/graham-bochner-combination-1.html">link</a><br />Grand Openings <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/08/grand-openings-at-museum-of-modern-art.html">link</a><br />Jim Green <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/08/jim-green-at-denver-museum-of.html">link</a><br />Matt Greene <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2007/01/deitch-projects-was-recently-showing.html">link</a><br />Ethan Greenbaum <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/03/wildlife.html">link</a><br />Tue Greenfort <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/07/plot09-this-world-nearer-ones-part-2-of.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/07/plot09-this-world-nearer-ones-part-2-of.html">link</a><br />Mark Grotjahn <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/06/greater-la.html">link</a><br />Mario Grubisic <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/04/pig-presents-at-deitch-projects-long.html">link</a><br />Nuria Güell <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/06/photographs.html">link</a><br />Mauricio Guillén <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/03/galleries-in-mexico-city.html">link</a><br />Barkev Gulesserian <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/03/dependent-art-fair-at-four-points-by.html">link</a><br />Andreas Gursky <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2007/01/quick-notes-2.html">link</a><br />Kayla Guthrie <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/10/160-km-at-kid-yellin.html">link</a><br />Wade Guyton <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2012/03/wade-guyton-and-stephen-prina-at.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2013/02/virginia-overton-in-emergency.html">link</a><br />Guyton\Walker <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/08/guyton-walker-at-greene-naftali-gallery.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/07/no-bees-no-blueberries-at-harris.html">link</a><br />Fabrice Gygi <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/04/photographs.html">link</a><br /><br /><b>H</b><br />Hans Haacke <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/12/hans-haackes-condensation-cuve-at.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2008/05/hans-haacke-on-cultural-production.html">link</a><br />Karl Haendal <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/11/felix-gonzalez-torress-lover-cranberry.html">link</a><br />Marcia Hafif <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2013/02/art-los-angeles-contemporary-2013.html">link</a><br />Frank Haines <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/02/sunday-evening-on-lower-east-side.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/06/frank-haines-form-is-graveyard-off.html">link</a><br />David Hall <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2008/05/television-interventions-1-video-art-10.html">link</a><br />Peter Halley <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/02/from-archives-40-years-40-projects-at.html">link</a><br />Tamar Halpern <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/03/this-has-been-at-on-stellar-rays-review.html">link</a><br />Ray Hamilton <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/03/dependent-art-fair-at-four-points-by.html">link</a><br />David Hammons <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/06/cooper-union-david-hammons-1983-2010.html">link</a><br />Chris Hanson and Hendrika Sonnenberg <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/08/white-noise-at-james-cohan-gallery.html">link</a><br />Dave Hardy <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/06/doubling-down-entanglement-at-regina.html">link</a><br />Keith Haring <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/02/keith-haring-ten-commandments-at-deitch.html">link</a><br />Kerry Hassler <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/03/dependent-art-fair-at-four-points-by.html">link</a><br />Halsey Hathaway <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/06/control-alt-delete-one-night-hkjb-show.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/04/working-title-at-bronx-river-art-center.html">link</a><br />Paula Hayes <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/08/paula-hayes-excerpts-from-story-of.html">link</a><br />Sharon Hayes <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/12/sharon-hayes-yard-sign-at-x-photographs.html">link</a><br />Jason Hedges <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/05/miami-noir-at-invisible-exports.html">link</a><br />Conelia Hediger <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/10/in-sight-from-way-out-abes-penny-review.html">link</a><br />Mary Heilmann <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/05/down-and-then-out-18-murals-on-gates-of.html">link</a><br />Hunter Hunt Hendrix <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/09/harvest-moon-at-425-oceanview-avenue.html">link</a><br />Corin Hewitt <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/01/corin-hewitt-at-whitney-museum-of.html">link</a><br />Patrick Hill <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/06/greater-la.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/01/patrick-hill-clumsy-angels-at-bortolami.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/07/gladstone-brings-dash-of-minneapolis-to.html">link</a><br />Thomas Hirschhorn <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/04/thomas-hirshhorn-universal-gym-at.html">link</a><br />Jim Hodges <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/10/chuck-close-and-cheese-doodles-artists.html">link</a><br />Nina Hoffmann <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/03/leopards-in-temple-at-sculpturecenter.html">link</a><br />Dennis Hollingsworth <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/04/working-title-at-bronx-river-art-center.html">link</a><br />Katie Holten <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/05/in-back-of-real-in-and-around.html">link</a><br />Wopo Holup <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/07/victorian-worthies-bathroom-art-calarts.html">link</a><br />Jenny Holzer <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/08/eleven-sculptures-in-minneapolis.html">link</a><br />Roni Horn <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/10/tribute-to-ron-warren-at-mary-boone.html">link</a><br />Jonathan Horowitz <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/05/jonathan-horowitz-go-vegan-at-gavin.html">link</a><br />Christine Shan Shan Hou <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/05/art-books-on-runway-publication-studio.html">link</a><br />John Houck&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/09/productive-steps-at-mount-tremper-arts.html">link</a><br />Thomas Houseago <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/08/flowers-for-summer-at-michael-werner.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/08/public-art-funds-statuesque-in-city.html">link</a><br />Otis Houston, Jr. <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/10/spaced-out-on-time-at-canada.html">link</a><br />Tehching Hsieh <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/03/tehching-hsieh-on-art-history.html">link</a><br />Katherine Hubbard <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/03/dependent-art-fair-at-four-points-by.html">link</a><br />Gary Hume <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/07/gary-hume-yardwork-at-matthew-marks.html">link</a><br />David Humphrey <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/02/regina-rex-texturetxt-at-regina-rex.html">link</a><br />Jacqueline Humphries <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/05/down-and-then-out-18-murals-on-gates-of.html">link</a><br />James Hyde <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/06/james-hyde-stuart-davis-group-at-boiler.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/10/brendan-fowler-james-hyde-jacob-kassay.html">link</a><br /><br /><b>I</b><br />Dorothy Iannone <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/01/top-10-new-york-gallery-shows-of-2009.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/08/dorothy-iannone-at-anton-kern.html">link</a><br />Inaba <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/06/art-trend-cars.html">link</a><br />Robert Irwin <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/04/robert-irwin-and-intersection-of-42nd.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/04/count-giuseppe-panza-di-biumo-1923-2010.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/01/primary-atmospheres-works-from.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2008/12/top-ten-of-2008-10-panza-collection-at.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2008/04/from-debords-critique-de-la-sparation.html">link</a><br />Alex Israel <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/06/greater-la.html">link</a><br /><br /><b>J</b><br />Alfredo Jaar <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/10/work-by-robert-kinmont-handstand-master.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/05/contemporary-art-in-madrid-part-2.html">link</a><br />Patrick Jackson&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/06/greater-la.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/09/after-blood-drive-michael-e-smith.html">link</a><br />Xylor Jane <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/10/abstract-abstract-at-foxy-production.html"><span id="goog_983976748"></span>link<span id="goog_983976749"></span></a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/03/saltz-and-smith-agree-on-xylor-jane.html">link</a><br />Alex Jasch <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/05/contemporary-art-in-madrid-part-2.html">link</a><br />Charles Jencks <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/08/coloring-contest-secret-chapel-etc.html">link</a><br />Chantal Joffe <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/06/chantal-joffe-at-cheim-read-photographs.html">link</a><br />Jasper Johns <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/03/leo-steinberg-1920-2011.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2008/03/vito-acconci-remote-control-1971_02.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2007/01/quick-notes-2.html">link</a><br />Matt Johnson <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/06/greater-la.html">link</a><br />Rashid Johnson <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/08/remembering-tony-rosenthal-remembering.html">link</a><br />Matt Jones <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/06/control-alt-delete-one-night-hkjb-show.html">link</a><br />Ryan Jones <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/06/doubling-down-entanglement-at-regina.html">link</a><br />Pamela Jorden <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/04/working-title-at-bronx-river-art-center.html">link</a><br />Donald Judd <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/07/from-back-room-to-fire-escape.html">link</a><br />Charles Juhasz-Alvarado <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/10/marcel-duchamp-art-of-chess-at-francis.html">link</a><br /><br /><b>K</b><br />Rose Kallal <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/06/summer-arrives-rose-kallals-lady-of.html">link</a><br />Faten Kanaan <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/04/not-way-you-remembered-at-queens-museum.html">link</a><br />Allan Kaprow <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/09/misremembering-allan-kaprows-courtyard.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/09/allan-kaprow-william-popel-yard-at.html">link</a><br />Deborah Kass <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/05/down-and-then-out-18-murals-on-gates-of.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/09/deborah-kass-barbara-bloom-and-bruce.html">link</a><br />Jacob Kassay <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/09/harvest-moon-at-425-oceanview-avenue.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/07/painting-expanded-at-tanya-bonakdar.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/10/brendan-fowler-james-hyde-jacob-kassay.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/03/jacob-kassay-at-eleven-rivington-review.html">link</a><br />Alex Katz <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/03/interview-with-alex-katz.html">link</a><br />On Kawara <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/08/between-here-and-there-at-metropolitan.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/10/in-sight-from-way-out-abes-penny-review.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/08/6-works-6-rooms-at-david-zwirner.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/02/unruly-history-of-readymade-at-jumex.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/01/read-1000000-years-become-1000-dollar.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2008/12/top-ten-of-2008-10-panza-collection-at.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2008/12/adrian-searle-and-microphone.html">link</a><br />Kristen Kee <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/02/regina-rex-texturetxt-at-regina-rex.html">link</a><br />Matt Keegan <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/05/art-books-on-runway-publication-studio.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/02/artists-institute-jo-baer-robert.html">link</a><br />Mary Reid Kelley 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Mellin <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/07/no-bees-no-blueberries-at-harris.html">link</a><br />Mario Merz <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/01/arte-povera-in-chelsea.html">link</a><br />Rebecca Miller <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/09/100-records-100-record-covers-and-ed.html">link</a><br />Marilyn Minter <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/03/dependent-art-fair-at-four-points-by.html">link</a><br />Aleksandra Mir <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/10/tribute-to-ron-warren-at-mary-boone.html">link</a><br />Joan Mitchell <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/08/le-tableau-at-cheim-read-new-york.html">link</a><br />Simon Dybbroe Møller <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/08/collected.html">link</a><br />Matthew Monahan <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/08/public-art-funds-statuesque-in-city.html">link</a><br />Jonathan Monk <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/06/art-trend-cars.html">link</a><br />Joseph Montgomery <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/06/joseph-montgomery-lie-lay-lain-lay-laid.html">link</a><br />Giorgio Morandi <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2008/12/giorgio-morandi-at-lucas-schoormans-and.html">link</a><br />Moris <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2008/12/top-10-of-2008-5-schweiz-ber-alles-at.html">link</a><br />Richard Allen Morris <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/04/richard-allen-morris-morris-code-works.html">link</a><br />Robert Morris <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/07/forces-in-motion-robert-morris-at.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/08/white-noise-at-james-cohan-gallery.html">link</a><br />Sarah Morris <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/08/remembering-tony-rosenthal-remembering.html">link</a><br />Olivier Mosset <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2012/05/olivier-mosset-jeffrey-schad-vincent.html">link</a><br />Carrie Moyer <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/05/carrie-moyer-arcana-at-canada.html">link</a><br />Sam Moyer <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/07/painting-expanded-at-tanya-bonakdar.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/06/price-good-market-inc-at-st-cecilias.html">link</a><br />MPA <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/11/mpamegan-palaima-performance-for-emma.html">link</a><br />Christopher Muller <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/05/contemporary-art-in-madrid-part-2.html">link</a><br />Matt Mullican <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/10/work-by-robert-kinmont-handstand-master.html">link</a><br />Vik Muniz <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/07/three-choice-chelsea-group-shows.html">link</a><br />Takashi Murakami <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2008/07/murakami-and-anger.html">link</a><br />Dave Murray <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/04/not-way-you-remembered-at-queens-museum.html">link</a><br /><br /><b>N</b><br />Peter Nadin <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/07/sweet-spot-peter-nadins-bootleg-buying.html">link</a><br />Yoshitomo Nara <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/09/yoshitomo-naras-sculptures-arrive-on.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://observer.com/2010/07/sober-after-the-myth/">link</a><br />Bruce Nauman <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/09/deborah-kass-barbara-bloom-and-bruce.html">link</a><br />Alice Neel <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/05/mona-lisa-david-zwirner-and-art.html">link</a><br />Dona Nelson <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/02/regina-rex-texturetxt-at-regina-rex.html">link</a><br />Ernesto Neto <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/05/lee-stoezel-big-fall-at-mixed-greens.html">link</a><br />Max Neuhaus <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/03/art-on-33rd-floor-in-times-square.html">link</a><br />Barnett Newman <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/09/barnett-newmans-broken-obelisk-de.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/07/three-gifts-on-view-at-wadsworth.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/08/remembering-tony-rosenthal-remembering.html">link</a><br />Bob Nickas <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/12/may-11-1975-war-is-over.html">link</a><br />Tim Noble &amp; Sue Webster <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/08/101-cassette-labels-74-screams-150000.html">link</a><br />Cady Noland <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2008/12/happy-holidays.html">link</a><br />The Nowolipie Group <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/08/public-art-funds-statuesque-in-city.html">link</a><br />Dominic Nurre <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/03/art-on-33rd-floor-in-times-square.html">link</a><br /><br /><b>O</b><br />Ruben Ochoa <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/04/picasso-videos-donald-judds-love-for.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/04/ruben-ochoa-collapsed-at-peter-blum.html">link</a><br />Ken Okiishi <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/08/recent-new-york-video-art-survives-on.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/02/ken-okiishi-goodbye-to-manhattan-at.html">link</a><br />Claes Oldenburg <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/08/twombly-best-dressed-post-crisis.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/08/remembering-tony-rosenthal-remembering.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2008/12/claes-oldenburg-at-museum-of-modern-art.html">link</a><br />Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/08/eleven-sculptures-in-minneapolis.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/12/minneapolis-sculpture-garden.html">link</a><br />Yoko Ono <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/10/marcel-duchamp-art-of-chess-at-francis.html">link</a><br />Dennis Oppenheim <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/05/dennis-oppenheim-at-train-station-in.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/08/between-here-and-there-at-metropolitan.html">link</a><br />Meret Oppenheim <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/04/starry-night-and-persistence-of-memory.html">link</a><br />Sarah Oppenheimer <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/07/sarah-oppenheimers-610-3356-at-mattress.html">link</a><br />Gabriel Orozco <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/12/gabriel-orozco-at-museum-of-modern-art.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/07/as-long-as-it-lasts-at-marian-goodman.html">link</a><br />Kaz Oshiro <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/06/greater-la.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/12/kaz-oshiro-setting-sun-and-robert-ryman.html">link</a><br />Silke Otto-Knapp <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/02/sunday-evening-on-lower-east-side.html">link</a><br />Virginia Overton <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2013/02/virginia-overton-in-emergency.html">link</a><br /><br /><b>P</b><br />Roxy Paine <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/11/roxy-paine-distillation-at-james-cohan.html">link</a><br />Megan Palaima <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/11/mpamegan-palaima-performance-for-emma.html">link</a><br />Elena Pankova <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/02/elena-pankova-anke-weyer-at-canada.html">link</a><br />Eduardo Paolozzi <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/08/brief-guide-to-cakes-at-museums-in.html">link</a><br />Greg Parma Smith <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/04/photographs.html">link</a><br />Philippe Parreno <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/01/rirkrit-tiravanija-reflection-at.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/01/philippe-parreno-at-guggenheim-art-of.html">link</a><br />Ian Pedigo <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/04/working-title-at-bronx-river-art-center.html">link</a><br />A.R. Penck <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/08/flowers-for-summer-at-michael-werner.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/10/r-penck-new-system-paintings-at-michael.html">link</a><br />Adam Pendleton <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/07/eli-broads-rent-len-lyes-wind-wands-etc.html">link</a><br />Scott Penkava <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/07/living-and-dead-at-gavin-browns.html">link</a><br />Asher Penn <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/06/asher-penn-2005-at-ground-floor.html">link</a><br />Ivan Perez <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/05/contemporary-art-in-madrid-part-2.html">link</a><br />Jenny Perlin <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/03/this-has-been-at-on-stellar-rays-review.html">link</a><br />Gary Petersen <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/04/working-title-at-bronx-river-art-center.html">link</a><br />Raymond Pettibon <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/03/dependent-art-fair-at-four-points-by.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/08/6-works-6-rooms-at-david-zwirner.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2008/03/vito-acconci-remote-control-1971_02.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2007/01/quick-art-1.html">link</a><br />Richard Pettibone <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/10/rare-richard-pettibone-moment.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/02/unruly-history-of-readymade-at-jumex.html">link</a><br />Elizabeth Peyton <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/06/dont-cross-robert-storr.html">link</a><br />Susan Philipsz&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2012/10/susan-philipsz-study-for-strings-at.html">link</a><br />Francis Picabia <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/08/flowers-for-summer-at-michael-werner.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/09/barry-mcgee-and-josh-lazcano-at-houston.html">link</a><br />Pablo Picasso <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/08/flowers-for-summer-at-michael-werner.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/03/museum-of-modern-art-museum-of-american.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/06/sol-lewitt-video-twinkie-photos-etc.html">link</a><br />Otto Piene <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/04/otto-piene-light-ballet-and-fire.html">link</a><br />Jack Pierson <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/10/tribute-to-ron-warren-at-mary-boone.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/08/6-works-6-rooms-at-david-zwirner.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/02/from-archives-40-years-40-projects-at.html">link</a><br />Adrian Piper <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/06/adrian-pipers-village-voice-ads-sequel.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/06/adrian-pipers-advertisements-in-village.html">link</a><br />Michelangelo Pistoletto <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/01/arte-povera-in-chelsea.html">link</a><br />Max Pitegoff <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/10/abstract-abstract-at-foxy-production.html">link</a><br />Paolo Pivi <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/04/pig-presents-at-deitch-projects-long.html">link</a><br />Lindomar Placencia <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/05/contemporary-art-in-madrid-part-2.html">link</a><br />Platform 21 <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/09/tape-boogie-woogie-at-pioneers-of.html">link</a><br />Janine Polak <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/03/wildlife.html">link</a><br />Serge Poliakoff <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/08/le-tableau-at-cheim-read-new-york.html">link</a><br />Sigmar Polke <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/08/flowers-for-summer-at-michael-werner.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/06/sigmar-polke-1941-2010.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/06/art-in-white-house-visits-to.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/06/sigmar-polke-lens-paintings-at-michael.html">link</a><br />Kottie Polloma <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/09/100-records-100-record-covers-and-ed.html">link</a><br />William Pope.L <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/09/allan-kaprow-william-popel-yard-at.html">link</a><br />Genesis Breyer P-Orridge <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/07/genesis-breyer-p-orridge-can-kill-at.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/06/genesis-breyer-p-orridge-live-in.html">link</a><br />Charlotte Posenenske <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/07/on-artists-that-quit-and-charlotte.html">link</a><br />Virginia Poundstone <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/12/virginia-poundstone-in-new-york-review.html">link</a><br />Jamie Powell <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/03/2-x-4-four-artists-visit-bushwicks.html">link</a><br />Ken Price <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/03/five-favorites-at-2010-armory-show.html">link</a><br />Stephen Prina <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2012/03/wade-guyton-and-stephen-prina-at.html">link</a><br />Richard Prince <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2015/12/a-visit-to-richard-princes-second-house.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/05/down-and-then-out-18-murals-on-gates-of.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/09/secret-richard-prince-early-works-on.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/06/richard-princes-t-shirt-paintings-and.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/06/art-trend-cars.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/06/art-in-white-house-visits-to.html">link</a><br />Marcel Proust <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2008/04/proust-and-vulgarity-of-photographic.html">link</a><br />Rob Pruitt <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/04/andy-touched-me-panel-at-new-school.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/11/its-all-american-at-njmoca.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/02/jerry-saltz-and-jeffrey-deitch-on-rob.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/07/living-and-dead-at-gavin-browns.html">link</a><br />Lina Puerta <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/06/art-in-white-house-visits-to.html">link</a><br />Martin Puryear <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/08/eleven-sculptures-in-minneapolis.html">link</a><br /><br /><b>Q</b><br />Marc Quinn <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/10/tribute-to-ron-warren-at-mary-boone.html">link</a><br /><br /><b>R</b><br />Luisa Rabbia <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/05/in-back-of-real-in-and-around.html">link</a><br />Sara Greenberger Rafferty <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/02/sunday-evening-on-lower-east-side.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/09/sara-greenberger-rafferty-tears-at.html">link</a><br />Jon Rafman <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/01/rirkrit-tiravanija-reflection-at.html">link</a><br />Reid Ramirez <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/03/dependent-art-fair-at-four-points-by.html">link</a><br />Charles Ray <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/06/art-trend-cars.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/05/charles-ray-ink-line-moving-wire.html">link</a><br />Man Ray <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/10/marcel-duchamp-art-of-chess-at-francis.html">link</a><br />Ad Reinhardt <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2008/12/top-ten-of-2008-10-panza-collection-at.html">link</a><br />Nick Relph <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/07/living-and-dead-at-gavin-browns.html">link</a><br />Grayson Revoir <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/09/harvest-moon-at-425-oceanview-avenue.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/09/productive-steps-at-mount-tremper-arts.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/11/its-all-american-at-njmoca.html">link</a><br />Carlos Reyes <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/06/doubling-down-entanglement-at-regina.html">link</a><br />Anselm Reyle <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/03/art-on-33rd-floor-in-times-square.html">link</a><br />Robin Rhode <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2008/01/work-of-art-when-placed-in-gallery.html">link</a><br />Gerhard Richter <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/03/five-favorites-at-2010-armory-show.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/07/as-long-as-it-lasts-at-marian-goodman.html">link</a><br />Jean Paul Riopelle <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/08/le-tableau-at-cheim-read-new-york.html">link</a><br />Pipilotti Rist <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/03/sip-my-ocean.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2008/12/top-10-of-2008-5-schweiz-ber-alles-at.html">link</a><br />Kenya (Robinson) <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/03/kenya-robinson-eats-cracker-in-kitchen.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/03/dependent-art-fair-at-four-points-by.html">link</a><br />Robot + Horse <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/06/doubling-down-entanglement-at-regina.html">link</a><br />Ry Rocklen <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2013/02/art-los-angeles-contemporary-2013.html">link</a><br />Adele Roeder <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/07/no-bees-no-blueberries-at-harris.html">link</a><br />Ugo Rondinone <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/02/unruly-history-of-readymade-at-jumex.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2008/12/top-10-of-2008-5-schweiz-ber-alles-at.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2008/12/top-10-of-2008-8-martin-boyce-and-ugo.html">link</a><br />Ronkom <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/07/living-and-dead-at-gavin-browns.html">link</a><br />Brion Nuda Rosch <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/06/control-alt-delete-one-night-hkjb-show.html">link</a><br />Tanja Roscic <a 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href="http://www.16miles.com/2008/01/work-of-art-when-placed-in-gallery.html">link</a><br />Ned Smyth <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/10/art-in-battery-park-city.html">link</a><br />Colin Snapp <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/07/colin-snapp-and-daniel-turner-at-martos.html">link</a><br />Agathe Snow <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/04/not-way-you-remembered-at-queens-museum.html">link</a><br />Song Dong <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/07/song-dong-at-museum-of-modern-art.html">link</a><br />Kathrin Sonntag <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/03/leopards-in-temple-at-sculpturecenter.html">link</a><br />Monika Sosnowska <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/03/kurimanzutto-inaugural-exhibition.html">link</a><br />Martin Soto Climent <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/11/its-all-american-at-njmoca.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/06/art-trend-cars.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a 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href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/01/top-10-of-2008-2-triple-candie-thank.html">link</a><br />Unknown <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/03/almost-baroque-at-triple-candie-review.html">link</a><br />Stewart Uoo <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/07/from-back-room-to-fire-escape.html">link</a><br />Andra Ursuta <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/03/dependent-art-fair-at-four-points-by.html">link</a><br /><b><br /></b><b>V</b><br />Guido van der Werve <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/07/as-long-as-it-lasts-at-marian-goodman.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/07/plot09-this-world-nearer-ones-part-2-of.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/07/plot09-this-world-nearer-ones-part-2-of.html">link</a><br />Vincent van Gogh <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/04/starry-night-and-persistence-of-memory.html">link</a><br />Jan van Huysum <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/03/almost-baroque-at-triple-candie-review.html">link</a><br />Nick van Woert&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/09/productive-steps-at-mount-tremper-arts.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/07/all-falls-down-sam-falls-and-nick-van.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/03/art-on-33rd-floor-in-times-square.html">link</a><br />Félix Vallotton <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/08/flowers-for-summer-at-michael-werner.html">link</a><br />Stephen Varble <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2013/08/standing-outside-tiffany-co-edgardo.html">link</a> <br />Ned Vena <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/07/ned-vena-is-having-great-summer.html">link</a><br />Nicola Verlato <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/02/battle-of-brush-bryant-park-new-york.html">link</a><br />Joseph Verrill <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/02/neapolitan-neapolitan-martha-roslers.html">link</a><br />Anton Vidokle <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/04/holiday-inn-parasites-and-martha.html">link</a><br />Darya von Berner <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/05/contemporary-art-in-madrid-part-2.html">link</a><br />Charline von Heyl <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/04/charline-von-heyl-at-friedrich-petzel.html">link</a><br />Ursula von Rydingsvard <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/09/dave-hickey-peter-plagens-and-cupcake.html">link</a><br /><br /><b>W</b><br />Maria Walker <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/06/control-alt-delete-one-night-hkjb-show.html">link</a><br />Ian Wallace <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/08/remembering-tony-rosenthal-remembering.html">link</a><br />Mark Wallinger <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/07/plot09-this-world-nearer-ones-part-2-of.html">link</a><br />Andy Warhol <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/08/worlds-fair-censorship-and-bizarre.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/07/andy-warhols-peculiar-100-part-group.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/06/andy-warhol-david-salle-fan.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/03/five-favorites-at-2010-armory-show.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/01/mysterious-orange-tribute-at-moma.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/10/andy-warhol-ladies-and-gentlemen-at.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/02/unruly-history-of-readymade-at-jumex.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2008/03/video-art-2-andy-warhol-kiss-1963.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2007/01/quick-art-1.html">link</a><br />Alex Waterman <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/07/trip-to-31st-floor-of-chrysler-building.html">link</a><br />Lawrence Weiner <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/05/down-and-then-out-18-murals-on-gates-of.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/07/happy-holiday.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/07/as-long-as-it-lasts-at-marian-goodman.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/07/plot09-this-world-nearer-ones-part-2-of.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2008/12/top-ten-of-2008-10-panza-collection-at.html">link</a><br />Judi Werthein <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/07/plot09-this-world-nearer-ones-part-2-of.html">link</a><br />John Wesley <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/07/dan-flavins-guggenheim-wedding-high.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2008/12/john-wesley-question-of-women-at.html">link</a><br />Tom Wesselmann <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/07/happy-holiday.html">link</a><br />Franz West <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/09/frank-west-in-central-park-fashion.html">link</a><br />Stephen Westfall <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/05/hkjb-personal-abstraction-photographs.html">link</a><br />Anke Weyer <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/02/elena-pankova-anke-weyer-at-canada.html">link</a><br />Doug Wheeler <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/07/happy-holiday.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/04/count-giuseppe-panza-di-biumo-1923-2010.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/01/primary-atmospheres-works-from.html">link</a><br />Eric White <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/02/battle-of-brush-bryant-park-new-york.html">link</a><br />Pae White <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/06/greater-la.html">link</a><br />Roger White <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/06/neon-rainbow-in-soho.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/02/battle-of-brush-bryant-park-new-york.html">link</a><br />Wendy White <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/05/hkjb-personal-abstraction-photographs.html">link</a><br />Rachel Whiteread <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/08/work-of-art-as-salon-make-your-own.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/07/roofs-of-moma-and-soho.html">link</a><br />Robert Whitman&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/04/there-and-back-again-robert-whitmans.html">link</a><br />John Williams <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/07/gladstone-brings-dash-of-minneapolis-to.html">link</a><br />Letha Wilson <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/04/working-title-at-bronx-river-art-center.html">link</a><br />Jackie Winsor <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/08/eleven-sculptures-in-minneapolis.html">link</a><br />Terry Winters <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/05/alchemy-and-inquiry-philip-taaffe-fred.html">link</a><br />Richard Woods <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/01/richard-woods-at-lever-house.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/07/opie-remembering-youth-childish-at-war.html">link</a><br />Frank Lloyd Wright <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/04/taliesin-west-phoenix-arizona.html">link</a><br />Richard Wright <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/08/edinburgh-gets-its-richard-wright.html">link</a><br />Cerith Wyn Evans <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/02/unruly-history-of-readymade-at-jumex.html">link</a><br />Rob Wynne <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/11/mickalene-thomas-marina-abramovic.html">link</a><br /><br /><b>X</b><br />Huang Xi <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/01/huang-xi-at-asia-song-society.html">link</a><br /><br /><b>Y</b><br />Anicka Yi <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/06/ryan-trecartin-trash-can-art-sumi-ink.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/02/artists-institute-jo-baer-robert.html">link</a><br />Albert York <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/06/albert-york-at-davis-langdale-new-york.html">link</a><br />Masaaki Yoshino <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/08/grand-openings-at-museum-of-modern-art.html">link</a><br /><br /><b>Z</b><br />Tamara Zahaykevich <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/06/neon-rainbow-in-soho.html">link</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/04/working-title-at-bronx-river-art-center.html">link</a><br />Juan Zamora <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2009/04/art-trend-open-flames.html">link</a><br />Bryan Zanisnik <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/04/not-way-you-remembered-at-queens-museum.html">link</a><br />David Zink Yi <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2010/07/gladstone-brings-dash-of-minneapolis-to.html">link</a><br /><br /><b>#</b><br />2-Up (Adam Schecter and Joe Winter)&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/03/dependent-art-fair-at-four-points-by.html">link</a>Andrew Russethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15959643115598272012noreply@blogger.com110tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1359843569314604044.post-83466919543676612712015-12-09T00:28:00.002-05:002015-12-09T00:33:03.114-05:00A Visit to Richard Prince's Second House in Rensselaerville, New York<img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/rphouse-01.jpeg" /><br /><small>Richard Prince, <i>Second House</i>, 2001–04 (damaged 2007). <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/sixteen-miles/albums/72157627212223939">Photos: 16 Miles</a> <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/sixteen-miles/albums/72157627212223939">[more]</a></small><br /><br>Richard Prince's <i>Second House</i> occupies one of the stranger chapters in recent art history. In 2005, the Guggenheim <a href="http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/press-room/releases/press-release-archive/2005/617-april-29-guggenheim-museum-to-acquire-richard-princes-qsecond-houseq">acquired, as a gift from the artist, the building</a> in rural Rensselaerville, New York, which Prince had turned into an exhibition space for a number of new car-hood paintings. The museum's plan was to make it open to the public for five months a year for at least a decade. (As part of the deal, museum trustees acquired the paintings as promised gifts to the museum.) Two years later, lightning hit the building. Fire engulfed it. But it was undergoing renovations at the time, so the paintings, thankfully, were stored elsewhere. Ever since, the burned-out building has been has been sitting there, empty. At some later point, Prince bought it back from the Guggenheim, <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/artist-richard-princes-secret-retreat-1417536346">as Kelly Crow revealed</a> while reporting on a new art Shangri-La that the artist is building nearby. In 2011, during the first edition of the NADA Hudson art fair, I stopped by and took these photos.<br><br><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/rphouse-02.jpeg" /><br /><br /><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/rphouse-03.jpeg" /><br /><br /><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/rphouse-04.jpeg" /><br /><br /><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/rphouse-05.jpeg" /><br /><br /><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/rphouse-06.jpeg" /><br /><br /><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/rphouse-07.jpeg" /><br /><br /><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/rphouse-08.jpeg" /><br /><br /><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/rphouse-09.jpeg" /><br /><br /><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/rphouse-10.jpeg" /><br /><br /><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/rphouse-11.jpeg" /><br /><br /><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/rphouse-12.jpeg" /><br /><br /><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/rphouse-13.jpeg" /><br /><br /><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/rphouse-14.jpeg" /><br /><br /><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/rphouse-15.jpeg" /><br /><br /><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/rphouse-16.jpeg" /><br /><br /><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/rphouse-17.jpeg" /><br /><br /><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/rphouse-18.jpeg" />Andrew Russethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15959643115598272012noreply@blogger.com599tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1359843569314604044.post-73550280454216066952014-02-01T12:19:00.000-05:002016-10-23T21:25:13.452-04:00Ei Arakawa and Nicolas Guagnini at David Lewis Gallery<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="466" mozallowfullscreen="" src="//player.vimeo.com/video/84276300?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="830"></iframe><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Performance excerpt and stills of performance by Ei Arakawa and Nicolas Guagnini at David Lewis Gallery, January 14, 2014.</span><br /><br /><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/ballooon1.jpg" /><br /><br /><br /><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/ballooon2.jpg" /><br /><br /><br /><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/ballooon3.jpg" /><br /><br /><br /><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/ballooon4.jpg" /><br /><br /><br /><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/ballooon5.jpg" /><br /><br /><br /><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/ballooon6.jpg" /><br /><br /><br /><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/ballooon7.jpg" /><br /><br /><br /><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/ballooon8.jpg" /><br /><br /><br /><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/ballooon9.jpg" /><br /><br /><br /><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/ballooon10.jpg" /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://davidlewisgallery.com/ode-to-joy-2/">"Nicolás Guagnini: Ode to Joy"</a> at David Lewis Gallery, New York, January 14–19, 2014Andrew Russethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15959643115598272012noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1359843569314604044.post-23181411746898034702013-09-22T15:31:00.002-04:002013-09-22T22:19:34.582-04:00Rose<img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/mlkrose.jpg" /><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, <em>As a primitive freak out</em>, 2009. (Photo courtesy the artist/Paddle8)</span><br /><br />The art world can look pretty bleak sometimes: huge group shows in which <a href="http://galleristny.com/2013/09/check-out-this-group-show-coming-up-at-gagosian-in-london-that-has-35-artists-34-of-whom-are-male/">34 of 35 artists are male</a>, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/27/arts/design/revealing-e-mails-by-gagosian-gallery-in-lichtenstein-suit.html?_r=0">"cruel and offensive"</a> offers, a breathtaking lack of diversity, and incredible amounts of money being spent on the same few artists, to name just a few issues.<br /><br />But every time things look especially dark from my vantage point, something comes along to mitigate those embarrassing truths and remind me that there is a lot of great stuff happening all over the place. Sometimes it's a show that bowls me over and forces me to think about or see something in a different way. Right now it's a group of artists who have gotten together to support a peer who has supported them many, many times in the past.<br /><br />With the help of numerous friends and colleagues, the artists Van Hanos and Jory Rabinovitz have organized <a href="http://paddle8.com/auctions/rosemarcus">a benefit exhibition</a> that runs through Monday, September 23, at <a href="http://paddle8.com/auctions/rosemarcus">Cleopatra's</a> in Greenpoint for their fellow artist Rose Marcus. (<a href="http://paddle8.com/auctions/rosemarcus">The accompanying auction of the work runs through 2 p.m. on that day</a>.) Here's <a href="http://paddle8.com/auctions/rosemarcus">what they wrote</a> about the project:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">A community of artists have come together to support their friend and colleague, <a href="http://rosemarcus.net/">Rose Marcus</a>, in her time of need after unexpected surgery. This benefit serves as homage to Rose's contributions as a young artist, organizer, academic and friend. The artists united behind the conceit that they can utilize their agency and artwork to provide shelter and preservation to other artists' practices when hardship arises.</blockquote>If you don't know <a href="http://rosemarcus.net/">Rose</a>, she is a New York-based artist, art historian and, as they wrote, organizer. You may have seen her canny, cagy work <a href="http://rosemarcus.net/">around town</a>, or been to the art fair that she put together twice, <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/03/dependent-art-fair-at-four-points-by.html">the Dependent</a>, which in my book provided two of the most entertaining, fruitful, and positive days of the past few years. (It's worth noting that she designed these to be strictly break-even affairs for herself.) She's also—full disclosure—a friend, and someone who has been intensely helpful with my writing.<br /><br />I often argue to friends (or really anyone who will listen) that, if they follow contemporary art with some level of interest, they should also buy it. Sure, it can be expensive, but by buying a drawing or painting by a young artist even only every year or two, you're helping to keep a young artist in the game and potentially supporting a young art dealer—not an easy job—at the same time. Plus you get something interesting, and maybe even beautiful, to spend some time with. If you're not a regular art collector, this is a great time to try out that role: it's for a wonderful cause, many of the works are remarkably affordable, and—this I cannot emphasize enough—they are by an absolutely phenomenal group of artists, who all happen to know Rose. It's a benefit show, but it doubles as a superb, tight survey of what smart, ambitious emerging artists are doing right now.<br /><br />Have a look at the works online or, if you're in New York, head over at <a href="http://cleopatrascleopatras.blogspot.com/">Cleopatra's</a>. If you have any questions, feel free to <a href="mailto:andrew.russeth@gmail.com">drop me a note</a>. Thanks for taking the time to listen.Andrew Russethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15959643115598272012noreply@blogger.com560tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1359843569314604044.post-85089990915617848972013-09-10T21:50:00.000-04:002016-10-23T21:50:50.671-04:00“Rock Art and the X-Ray Style" at 425 Oceanview Avenue, Brighton Beach<img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/425_0.jpg" /><br /><small>Paintings by Van Hanos in&nbsp;“Rock Art and the X-Ray Style,” organized by Ryan Foerster, at 425 Ocean View Avenue, Brooklyn, through September 30, 2013. <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/sixteen-miles/sets/72157635320205686/">Photos: 16 Miles</a> <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/sixteen-miles/sets/72157635320205686/">[more]</a></small><br /><br /><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/425_1.jpg" /><br /><small>Lukas Geronimas</small><br /><br /><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/425_2.jpg" /><br /><small>Metal and wood: Zak Kitnick and Win McCarthy collaboration</small><br /><br /><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/425_3.jpg" /><br /><small>Davina Semo</small><br /><br /><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/425_4.jpg" /><br /><small>Rochelle Goldberg</small><br /><br /><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/425_5.jpg" /><br /><small>Jesse Greenberg</small><br /><br /><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/425_6.jpg" /><br /><small>Zak Kitnick</small><br /><br /><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/425_7.jpg" /><br /><small>Rose Marcus and Win McCarthy</small><br /><br /><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/425_8.jpg" /><br /><small>Rose Marcus</small><br /><br /><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/425_9.jpg" /><br /><small>Justin Lieberman</small><br /><br /><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/425_13.jpg" /><br /><small>Jory Rabinovitz</small><br /><br /><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/425_10.jpg" /><br /><small>Davina Semo</small><br /><br /><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/425_12.jpg" /><br /><small>Joshua Abelow</small><br /><br /><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/425_14.jpg" /><br /><small>Jacob Kassay</small><br /><br /><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/425_15.jpg" /><small>Installation view</small><br /><br />“Rock Art and the X-Ray Style,” organized by Ryan Foerster, at 425 Oceanview Avenue, Brooklyn, through September 30, 2013Andrew Russethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15959643115598272012noreply@blogger.com46tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1359843569314604044.post-45722326411381564322013-08-15T21:31:00.000-04:002016-10-23T21:32:17.511-04:00'Reproduction' at What Pipeline, Detroit<img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/DSC_0294-1.jpg" /><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Installation view of "Reproduction" at What Pipeline, Detroit, through August 17, 2013. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sixteen-miles/sets/72157635054147773/">Photos: 16 Miles</a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sixteen-miles/sets/72157635054147773/">[more]</a></span><br /><br /><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/DSC_0295-1.jpg" /><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Works by Alex Becerra, Robert Beatty, Lucie Stahl, Leilah Weinraub, Swan Moon, Jana Euler <br /><br /><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/DSC_0296-2.jpg" /><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Swan Moon, <em>Dominika, Poster of Polish Girl Born Post-Communism</em>, 2011, and Jana Euler, <em>gossip rain, from private to public painting, reproduction</em>, 2013</span><br /><br /><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/DSC_0298.jpg" /><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Plates by Tom Humphrey's from the gallery's previous show, a two-person exhibition with Humphreys and Lucie Stahl, with La Croix sparkling water</span><br /><br /><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/DSC_0299-1.jpg" /><br /><br /><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/DSC_0300-1.jpg" /><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Nolan Simon, <em>Hero in Four Parts</em>, 2013 </span><br /><br /><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/DSC_0302-1.jpg" /><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Nate Young, <em>Nate Young</em>, 2013, Crystal Palmer, <em>Butts Up?</em>, 2013, Alex Becerra, <em>Untitled</em>, 2013, Robert Beatty, <em>Untitled</em>, 2013</span><br /><br /><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/DSC_0304.jpg" /></span><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span>"Reproduction" at What Pipeline, Detroit, through August 17, 2013Andrew Russethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15959643115598272012noreply@blogger.com31tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1359843569314604044.post-12955631224390419602013-08-14T10:57:00.002-04:002013-08-14T11:04:34.766-04:00Florine Stettheimer at the Detroit Institute of Arts [A Day for Detroit]<a href="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/stettheimer-small.jpg"><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/stettheimer-small.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Florine Stettheimer, <i>Love Flight of a Pink Candy Heart</i>, 1930. Photo courtesy the Detroit Institute of Arts.</span><br /><br /><div class="p1">It's a thrilling thing when it happens. You're wandering through an American museum, probably in its modern-art wing, when suddenly you find yourself in front of a painting by the inimitable Florine Stettheimer (1871–1944)—a confection of whites, pinks, and yellows offering up a scene of a chic-looking salon or picnic, or a portrait of a luminary of the time.&nbsp;</div><div class="p1"><br /></div><div class="p1">This happens more frequently than you might expect for an artist who generally refused to part with her paintings during her lifetime (she had a single solo show, at Knoedler). Thankfully, her sister, Ettie (1875–1955), ignored her request that her artworks be destroyed after her death, and spent the last years of her life carefully placing them in collections across the U.S., in <a href="http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/52270.html">Philadelphia</a>, <a href="http://collections.lacma.org/node/233234">Los Angeles</a>, <a href="https://collections.artsmia.org/index.php?page=detail&amp;id=1369">Minneapolis</a>,&nbsp;<a href="http://metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/488732?rpp=60&amp;pg=1&amp;ft=stettheimer&amp;pos=1">Manhattan</a>, <a href="http://www.uvm.edu/~fleming/index.php?category=collection&amp;page=american">Burlington</a>, <a href="http://collections.si.edu/search/results.htm?q=record_ID:siris_ari_53028">Dayton</a>, and among other places, Detroit, where I had the pleasure of coming across one this past weekend.</div><div class="p2"><br /></div><div class="p1">The DIA's painting, from 1930, has the best title of any painting by her that I know of: <i>Love Flight of a Pink Candy Heart</i>. According to a catalogue from the museum, she actually wrote that title on the the back of the work, along with a free-flowing poem. From the stretcher:</div><blockquote class="tr_bq">My romance Past NY<br />House Party Eden, New York<br />In Memory of a Sugar Coated Heart<br />My House (?) on Paradise<br />(my party)<span class="s1">←</span>Arcadia<br />Beautiful Yong men<br />I have known<br />Paradise, NY<br />House Party Eden N. York<br />April 1930</blockquote><div class="p1">And then on the back of the canvas, there is this:</div><blockquote class="tr_bq">THIS ONE<span class="s1">→</span>Love Flight of a Pink Candy heart<br />The title<span class="s1">→</span>LOVE FLIGHT OF A PINK CANDY HEART</blockquote><div class="p1">Pretty awesome. (For more on just how awesome Florine and her two sisters were, <a href="http://galleristny.com/2012/02/anything-went-florine-stettheimer-at-columbia-university/">this article I wrote about them last year for <i>The Observer</i> has some stories</a>.) The title was so great, in fact, that Michael Duncan took it for a 1995 group show at Holly Solomon about the wide influence of Florine on younger artists. (<a href="http://www.miraschor.com/CV/PDFS/Pink%20Candy%20Heart%201995015.pdf">The catalogue is available thanks to Mira Schor</a>.)</div><div class="p2"><br /></div><div class="p2">In a note that Ettie penned at the time of her donation to the DIA, she wrote that the work "represents Florine…contemplating various friends of her youth whom she has portrayed with a mingling of symbolism and realistic observation."</div><br /><div class="p3">According to the DIA, the gentleman in white lounging on the grass is probably the painter Charles Demuth, with whom Florine was friends, while the gentleman in tails is likely the photographer and writer Carl Van Vechten, a longtime associate of the Stettheimers who snapped some really <a href="http://brbl-archive.library.yale.edu/exhibitions/cvvpw//contentsa.html">amazingly strange, even creepy, photos</a> of Ettie and the third sister, Carrie, who's responsible for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stettheimer_Dollhouse">dollhouse replica</a> of their home that is on permanent view at the Museum of the City of New York. Florine's to the left on the balcony in that great pink number, and also at the lower right, dancing with an anonymous harlequin whom some scholars have identified as Duchamp, another family friend. (Florine organized his 30th birthday party).</div><div class="p3"><br /></div><div class="p3">There are a lot of things that I love about Stettheimer's paintings, but here are three of them. One is that the more time you spend with them, the stranger and more interesting they get. You notice odd messages and codes that she had secreted within them. She hides inscriptions and captions in plain sight, and often includes seemingly random bits of architecture that actually have deep personal significance once you know what she's referring to (thanks to the work of some intrepid scholars). They're ideal permanent-collection works, in other words, generously repaying repeat viewings.</div><div class="p3"><br /></div><div class="p3">The second thing I love is that they seem almost preternaturally confident and brave in their idiosyncratic style. Florine was hanging out with some of the most accomplished, ambitious, radical modernists of her day and making these sensual, sweet, and thoroughly bizarre figurative paintings. And at the age of almost 60, she was at work on this sensual, thoroughly feminine look back on her life. Her work stands as a reminder that tidy, linear histories of modernism are simply false.</div><div class="p3"><br /></div><div class="p3">The third thing is that, in her paintings, definitions of gender and sexuality, as well as narrative and formalism, become gloriously unmoored and free-floating. They embody and promote a permissiveness that I suspect I am not alone in finding deeply comforting. In short, they present attitudes and feelings that everyone should be able to encounter and experience at their local art museum.</div><div class="p3"><br /></div><div class="p3"><i>(This is part of a series of pieces by various art websites that are posting about art in Detroit today. <a href="http://blogs.artinfo.com/modernartnotes/2013/08/a-day-for-detroit-i/">More are available here</a>.)</i></div>Andrew Russethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15959643115598272012noreply@blogger.com585tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1359843569314604044.post-30730819823332558132013-08-03T12:58:00.003-04:002013-08-03T15:45:32.401-04:00Smørrebrød and Courbet, Laura Owens and Rachel Kushner, the CIA and Haim Steinbach, etc. [Collected]<img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/jams.jpg" /><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Installation view of Keil Borrman, “Airing the Facilitation Banner Paintings,” at Osmos, New York, July 22, 2013. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sixteen-miles/">Photo: 16 Miles</a></span><br /><ul><li>"He worked a brush quickly back and forth on the canvas. 'What is this article about, again?' <b>Your home</b>." [<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/25/greathomesanddestinations/ross-bleckner-wipes-the-canvas-clean.html?_r=1&amp;">NYT</a> via <a href="http://ahholeahhole.blogspot.com/">Ah Hole Ah Hole</a>]</li></ul><ul><li>Smoked trout smørrebrød and <b>Gustave Courbet</b>. [<a href="http://www.feastingonart.com/2013/03/gustave-courbet-smoked-trout-smorrebrod.html">Feasting on Art</a>]</li></ul><ul><li>"You get the feeling, in fact, that this woman could leg-wrestle a <b>crocodile</b> if she needed to." [<a href="http://blogs.artinfo.com/lacmonfire/2013/07/27/a-woman-who-could-leg-wrestle-a-crocodile/">LACM on Fire</a>]</li></ul><ul><li><b>Laura Owens</b> talks with <b>Rachel Kushner</b>. "Well, I love it when you have done that, put paintings inside paintings. I mean, even as a child if there was a children’s book with paintings on the wall inside the image––like in <i>Goodnight Moon</i>—I always felt entranced, like I was seeing something more, a surplus of viewing that was not being controlled for presentation: as if the pictures inside the picture were 'real' views, less authorized, because incidental. I guess that’s part of the playfulness when you, Laura, paint paintings inside of paintings—it suggests access to a more insightful view if you can see inside the picture something that wasn’t drawn by the hand of the picture maker." [<a href="http://logger.believermag.com/post/51246163032/its-spelled-motherfuckers-an-interview-with-rachel">The Believer</a> via <a href="http://www.briansholis.com/recommended-reading-january%E2%80%93june-2013/">Brian Sholis</a>]</li></ul><ul><li>"The Architecture of <b>Superman</b>: A Brief History of The Daily Planet." [<a href="http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/design/2013/06/the-architecture-of-superman-a-brief-history-of-the-daily-planet/">Design Decoded</a>]</li></ul><ul><li>Designing <b>Superman</b>. [<a href="http://99percentinvisible.org/post/53449128125/episode-82-the-man-of-tomorrow">99% Invisible</a>]</li></ul><ul><li>The <b>Central Intelligence Agency</b> channels <b>Haim Steinbach</b>. [<a href="http://greg.org/archive/2013/07/25/on_the_lens_of_cultural_histories_and_the_cias_otherwise_concealed_bonds.html">Greg.org</a>]</li></ul><ul><li><b>Steinbach</b> at CCS Bard: the show of the summer. [<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/02/arts/design/haim-steinbachs-and-helen-martens-solos-at-bard-college.html?ref=design">NYT</a>]</li></ul><ul><li><b>Dirk Luckow</b> conducts—assembles? or writes?—an interview with <b>Imi Knoebel</b> in 1993–94. [<a href="http://www.jca-online.com/knoebel.html">JCA</a> via <a href="http://www.rolublog.com/2013/07/simply-that-it-goes/">Rolublog</a>]</li></ul><ul><li><i>Four Saints in Three Acts</i>, 1934. [<a href="http://and-a-half.tumblr.com/image/54782407574">And a Half</a>]</li></ul><ul><li>Not <b>Beatrix Ruf</b>. [<a href="https://twitter.com/notbeatrixruf">@NotBeatrixRuf/Twitter</a> via <a href="http://jerrymagoo.blogspot.com/2013/07/da-ruf-da-ruf-da-ruf-is-on-fire.html">Jersey Magoo</a>]</li></ul><ul><li>A special message from <b>Brian Belott</b>! [<a href="http://joshuaabelow.blogspot.com/2013/07/a-special-message-from-brian-belott.html">ABAB</a>]</li></ul>Andrew Russethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15959643115598272012noreply@blogger.com427tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1359843569314604044.post-6088008164402499762013-08-01T07:22:00.000-04:002013-09-03T23:04:07.956-04:00Standing Outside Tiffany & Co.: Edgardo Aragón, 2013, and Stephen Varble, 1977<img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/DSC_0259.jpg" /><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Performance view of&nbsp;Edgardo Aragón,&nbsp;<i>La Encomienda</i>, June 23, 2013, outside Tiffany &amp; Company, New York</span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">. </span><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sixteen-miles/sets/72157634316300971/" style="font-size: x-small;">Photos: 16 Miles</a><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sixteen-miles/sets/72157634316300971/" style="font-size: x-small;">[more]</a><br /><br />On June 23, at 4 p.m., a young man walked in front of Tiffany &amp; Co., at 57th Street and Fifth Avenue, and started singing. A performance by the young Mexican artist Edgardo Aragón had begun. The musician, hired by Aragón, was dressed discreetly, in khaki pants and a blazer a slightly lighter shade of khaki, the sort of outfit that many of the men walking out of Tiffany with robin egg blue bags were wearing. <br /><br />Peering down occasionally at sheet music in a binder, he sang a composition made of mining-protest songs from Mexico. Almost no one noticed him. A very small group of art types watched from down the block, apparently alerted by announcements from Aragón's New York dealer, <a href="http://www.laurelgitlen.com/exhibitions/2013/0513_aragon/aragon-pr.pdf">Laurel Gitlen</a> (his solo show there closed that evening, and this was the second of two planned performances outside the store he organized during its run), but otherwise he was pretty much ignored. Scores of tourists strolled past him. A doorman from the nearby Trump Tower walked by, smoking a cigarette. A gentleman standing next to me—one of the few clued in to the performance—leaned on the wire stand of a vendor selling various comic-book knickknacks and souvenirs (visible at the start of the video below), and even after the vendor asked him pretty nicely to stop, that he was afraid his merchandise would get knocked off his stand, he refused to stop leaning, and they started bickering at each other. The man told the seller not to interrupt him, that he was watching the performance. After asking the man to move quite a few times, the vendor called him a "fucking faggot," and threatened to beat him up. Eventually the guy moved away from the stand. All the while the singer kept going, pretty much completely ignored except by the occasional curious look from a passerby, or someone posing for a portrait next to the store's sign.<br /><br /><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/stephen.jpg" /><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Stephen Varble in front of Tiffany &amp; Co., 1977. Photo by David Mayer,&nbsp;<i>Art in America</i>, July/August 1977, p. 63.</span><br /><br />That sign seemed oddly familiar, but it took me a few days to figure out why it was stuck in my head. Looking through old photos—big thanks to <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sixteen-miles/map">the Flickr map tool</a>—I came across an image of Stephen Varble in almost the exact same spot in 1977 that I had come across in an old <i>Art in America</i>. Varble was so inventive, outrageous and generally out-there that if you wrote him into a novel, people would roll their eyes. You could call him a performance artist, though that would be far too constraining an identification. In the mid-1970s, he gave tours of Soho galleries dressed in various outré outfits, many composed of garbage, and gave various self-degrading performances. (One involved playing around in a swimming pool at a party while being sprayed with yellow water from a penis-shaped shower nozzle as he asked people to urinate on him. Think of him as a one-man proto-Gelitin.)<br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="623" mozallowfullscreen="" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/69002548" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="830"></iframe><br /><br /><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/DSC_0261.jpg" /><br /><br />After spending a few years doing performances throughout downtown Manhattan, according to Hayden Herrera, in her excellent "Manhattan Seven" piece in the July/August 1977 in <i>Art in America</i>, he moved uptown and found two wealthy patrons. (He showed up to one performance, which involved washing ink-splattered dishes in a gutter outside a gallery, in a silver Rolls Royce that he had borrowed.)<br /><br /><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/DSC_0252.jpg" /> <br /><br />In 1977, he started visiting Tiffany in costume, and on the second stop there was banned from the store. "On his third sally he wore his elephant costume," Herrera says, "but barely got his elephant-foot in the door." (Her report is the best—and only account—I've been able to find of the incident, and is also the most in-depth profile of Varble that I'm aware of. It also includes some quotations from him about his practice and American life that are just absolutely epic—like, "I am as shameless as nature"—but I'll save those for another time. Herrera's piece is also the source of information for the other performances I've mentioned.)<br /><br /><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/DSC_0251.jpg" /> <br /><br />"I adore Tiffany's," Varble told Herrera. "It institutionalizes the horror I hate the most. It's really a five-and-dime." Guards reportedly met him at the door the third time he tried to visit. He continues, "They kept me in the revolving door and I just kept revolving. The elephant hoof made a noise like a sledge hammer. Finally I went and stood outside the door and did my dance." I would love to be able to see a video of that dance, but I haven't heard of one. We can get at least a hint of it from David Mayer's photo, above.<br /><br /><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/DSC_0253-1.jpg" /> <br /><br />Varble, who died of AIDS in 1985, and Aragón, in numerous ways, offer intensely different, almost absolutely opposite, approaches to the famed jeweler. Varble's the outrageous, costumed extrovert, throwing himself into the belly of the beast, humorously and abjectly begging for the attention of the crowd, and the authorities. Aragón, in contrast, handed off duties to a trained professional, who was completely nondescript, in the midst of the crowd (though not part of it), ready to regal you if you paid attention, but content to do his own thing, to voice protests songs to no one but himself and the silent building, so that they ultimately become songs of mourning—memorials to failed political intentions. The tone of the performance was far removed from Varble's, but it was, in its own way, just as abject.<br /><br /><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/DSC_0256.jpg" /> <br /><br />He sang forcefully, almost without hesitation, and with good posture, enunciating and projecting, letting his voice travel. But he was still apparently so easy to ignore that, as I watched, holding my camera and filming a bit of the performance from the edge of the sidewalk, a woman came up and asked me to snap her and her friends in front of the Tiffany sign, as if nothing of note was going on around them. Who could refuse? They posed in front of the sign, smiling as the man sang just a few feet away.<br /><br />Eventually he closed his binder and walked briskly up Fifth Avenue, disappearing into the crowd.<br /><br /><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/DSC_0262.jpg" /><br /><br /><i> Update: An earlier version of this post incorrectly stated that the performer was Aragón. In fact, the singer was a musician hired by the artist. The post has been changed to reflect this.</i>Andrew Russethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15959643115598272012noreply@blogger.com57tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1359843569314604044.post-73503983399427576492013-07-16T22:54:00.002-04:002013-07-16T23:06:34.493-04:00Sam Anderson, 'Shuffle Puck Cafe,' at Bed-Stuy Love Affair<img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/SA02.jpg" /><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Installation view of Sam Anderson, "Shuffle Puck Cafe," at Bed-Stuy Love Affair, Brooklyn, through June 23. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sixteen-miles/sets/72157634321416828/">Photos: 16 Miles</a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sixteen-miles/sets/72157634321416828/">[more]</a></span><br /><br />For her recent one-person show at the new <a href="http://www.bedstuyloveaffair.us/">Bed-Stuy Love Affair</a> gallery, <a href="http://www.bedstuyloveaffair.us/">"Shuffle Puck Cafe,"</a>&nbsp;Sam Anderson arrayed more than 100 hunks of coal in long rows on the floor.&nbsp;Carefully spaced out across the room, they dominated the display at first glance—dusty or lustrous, sharp-edged or elegantly worn down, chic or dirty. Wielding Minimalist tropes awkwardly and irregularly, they recalled in their variations Joel Shapiro's sets of small clay objects and inked fingerprints from 1969 to 1972 that <a href="http://www.starr-art.com/exhibits/joel-shapiro_sculpture-drawings/">Craig F. Starr Gallery</a> showed earlier this year, though Anderson's mutations are readymade, ultimately impersonal selections, rather than handmade and intimately produced.<br /><br /><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/SA03.jpg" /><br /><br />The carefully handmade sculptures are elsewhere, though it took me a moment to spot them—peculiar objects set on top, around, and within the coal grid, like musical notes on a staff or words placed on the lines of a notebook. A fragmented, ad hoc syntax became apparent. Two short saloon doors, just a few inches tall and made of light wood, were ajar. Frog skeletons appeared in various places: climbing a piece of coal, asleep or dead on a bed—a pyre?—of leaves and gambling chips, and sprawled out next to at least half a dozen little bottles of liquor. It looked like a raucous party had come to an end hours earlier, only a few stragglers having failed to escape. Or maybe separate, solitary tragedies had just been playing themselves out all night. (Another, even more bracing possibility: this was the same frog, presented throughout the installation at various points in his or her life, like a biblical figure who reappears repeatedly throughout an old painting at different stages in a religious journey.)<br /><br /><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/SA04.jpg" /><br /><br />There was also a minuscule bowl of minuscule walnuts (complete with a properly proportioned nutcracker), tiny skis, a few little drums, (full-size) lemons, and a toy trireme-like vessel sitting not far away from the coal, guaranteed to sink immediately upon being placed in water, its body a slab of cement, its oars little wooden sticks. And all of this was lit by colored ceiling lights. (My photos don't really do it justice, but <a href="http://www.bedstuyloveaffair.us/">the gallery's website has some images that better capture the atmosphere</a>.)<br /><br br="" /><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/SA05.jpg" /><br /><br />You could point to <a href="http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/CharlesLeDray">Charles LeDray</a>'s minute sculptures as a reasonable comparison, but Anderson's not interested in obviously obsessive (finicky) craftsmanship. She's building provisional, hilarious sculptures with seemingly whatever she has at hand. And all the while, there are hints of rich and strange stories playing themselves out. What were the Alcoholics Anonymous coins doing throughout the piece? The dead slug on a slab of concrete? And <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shufflepuck_Caf%C3%A9">the show's title</a>, referring to a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pUmfxM9h54">classic, bizarre air hockey video game</a>? <br /><br /><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/SA06.jpg" /><br /><br />I'm tempted to think of the show as a dissembled, madcap, and maybe even slightly sinister version of Carrie Walter Stettheimer's <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMWn5rsLxX8">dollhouse</a> at the Museum of the City of New York, though that's a structure that is eerily devoid of life, always begging to be activated by people, whereas Anderson's piece teems with signs of activity—maybe more activity than one could take in even on a long visit. Just when I thought I had seen the whole work, another little sculpture caught my eye, suggesting other stories. <br /><br /><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/SA07.jpg" /><br /><br />Sheer novelty is a pretty dubious criterion for evaluating art, as Aldous Huxley wrote in his 1926 essay <a href="http://www.paradoxplace.com/Perspectives/Italian%20Images/Montages/Art/Best%20Picture%20Huxley%20Essay.pdf">"The Best Picture,"</a> warning about "the error of those who measure merit by a scale of oddness and rarity." There are plenty of unique, one-of-a-kind things that are terrible or worse, boring. But not Anderson's practice, which feels wonderfully, exceptionally unique in its blending of formal and narrative issues, and its absolute brio. The show has been stuck in my head for more than a month now. What was happening to those frogs? What are they up to now? Where will Anderson go next? Bring on the sequel.<br /><br /><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/SA08.jpg" /><br /><br /><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/SA09.jpg" /><br /><br /><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/SA10.jpg" /><br /><br />(A final note: the gallery takes its name from a cocktail that was offered for a time at <a href="http://www.bcrestaurantgroup.com/peaches">Peaches</a>, the redoubtable Southern-leaning New American restaurant located not far away in Bed-Stuy, a sign of good taste and ambition if ever there was one.)Andrew Russethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15959643115598272012noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1359843569314604044.post-50320053274055012162013-04-01T07:22:00.002-04:002013-04-01T07:30:53.848-04:00Matias Faldbakken's Untitled (Book Sculpture) in Oslo and at Documenta 13<a href="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8281/7820337236_3bbeb79e1c_b.jpg"><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/documentafald1.jpg" /></a><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Matias Faldbakken, <i>Untitled (Book Sculpture)</i>, 2008/2012. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sixteen-miles/sets/72157631295156904/">Photos: 16 Miles (except where noted)</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sixteen-miles/collections/72157631295310956/">[more]</a></span><br /><br />Since Documenta only arrives every five years, hopefully it's okay to spend the next year or so writing about it. <br /><br />One of the more unusual moments came in Kassel's Youth Library, where Matias Faldbakken had installed his <i>Untitled (Book Sculpture)</i> (2008/2012), throwing dozens of books from their shelves onto the ground. For the 100 days of the exhibition, the poor children of Kassel had to wade through the pile on the ground to find some volumes. Faldbakken also staged the work in the City Hall Library, though I sadly didn't make it there. (<a href="http://www.contemporaryartdaily.com/2012/06/documenta-13-matias-faldbakken/">Contemporary Art Daily has an epic selection of installation shots of that iteration</a>.) <br /><br />The dating of the piece—2008/2012—was interesting to see. It turns out that it was first staged in 2008 at Oslo's Deichmanske Public Library, the largest public library in Norway. Kunsthall Oslo's director, Gunnar Eeg-Tverbakk, helped to arrange that presentation (pictured below) and <a href="http://brage.bibsys.no/khio/retrieve/20/05-01-12%20Critical%20reflections%20on%20Space%20for%20Interference.pdf">wrote extensively about the experience</a>. The <a href="http://brage.bibsys.no/khio/retrieve/20/05-01-12%20Critical%20reflections%20on%20Space%20for%20Interference.pdf">backstory</a> is awesome. <br /><br /><a href="http://brage.bibsys.no/khio/retrieve/20/05-01-12%20Critical%20reflections%20on%20Space%20for%20Interference.pdf"><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/faldbakken.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>Untitled (Book Sculpture)</i>, 2008, at the Deichmanske Library, Oslo. <a href="http://brage.bibsys.no/khio/retrieve/20/05-01-12%20Critical%20reflections%20on%20Space%20for%20Interference.pdf">Photo: Vegard Kleven</a></span><br /><br />Eeg-Tverbakk and Faldbakken pitched the idea to the library and naturally did not expect an especially positive response, given that books could be damaged when they were thrown onto the floor, but the library agreed to it. And not only did they agree, they proposed making the project even more dramatic. Writes Eeg-Tverbakk:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">[Library administrators] later suggested expanding the act of vandalism to include a much larger section of the collection, which Faldbakken rejected on artistic grounds. He was predominantly interested in the staged act of vandalism as a concentrated image, rather than a comprehensive state of affairs.</blockquote>Not only did the library eagerly take up the project, but some patrons "in sympathy with the plight of the Library took matters into their own hands and began tidying the books and placing the back on the shelves again—only to find the pile on the floor again the next day." Only in Scandinavia. How great looking is that? It's scatter art realized through vandalism, a González-Torres-style pile that requires you to be a member of the institution to take away the souvenir.)<br /><br /><a href="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8427/7820336176_2b9ccd25fe_b.jpg"><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/documentafald2.jpg" /></a><br /><br />Furthering confusion among the public, the piece was unlabeled at the Deichmanske Public Library,&nbsp;as it was in Kassel. Faldbakken asked librarians to tell people who asked about the mess: "It is somewhat unclear how this happened, but we have been told by the management that it will be taken care of shortly." That response is maybe as good as the piece itself: art requiring its host to lie to its users. <br /><br />The Oslo library's head, Liv Sæteren, wrote a news release that it planned to issue in case there was a controversy over the project. (One wonders how often organizations do this?) It was never used, but it makes a pretty great case for the piece:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">[The books] are still there, the thoughts are still there, the content is still there - but the system has been demolished and we have to search in new ways. In this light, we can see Faldbakken’s sculpture as a highly topical comment on the idea of a new library space.</blockquote>It's a playful, slightly sinister attempt to imagine a reordering of knowledge, to be sure, but it also highlights the library, that sleepy and staid institution, as a site that can be contested, where very real conflicts can get played out (and have been played out in the past). I don't know how Norwegians felt about the work when they saw it back in 2008, but I know that in the center of Germany last summer, as part of an exhibition that was, in part, concerned with the unresolved, unresolvable traumas of World War II, those violently scattered books looked horrifying.<br /><br /><a href="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8289/7820338974_e71c8e3fa7_b.jpg"><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/documentafald3.jpg" /></a>Andrew Russethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15959643115598272012noreply@blogger.com29tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1359843569314604044.post-69098885933166676582013-02-07T08:17:00.002-05:002013-02-07T08:22:09.971-05:00Art Los Angeles Contemporary 2013<a href="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8092/8443733820_bf7085d448_b.jpg"><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/DSC_0278.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Paintings by&nbsp;Michelle Grabner, sculptures by Tony Matelli at Green Gallery, Milwaukee, at Art Los Angeles Contemporary, January 26.&nbsp;<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sixteen-miles/sets/72157632693272404/">Photos: 16 Miles</a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sixteen-miles/sets/72157632693272404/">[more]</a></span><br /><br />Every once in a while, a plane rumbles overhead at Art Los Angeles Contemporary, which is set in the Barker Hangar at the Santa Monica Airport. Sounds stressful, I know, but it's actually sort of romantic. The vibe at the fair is so supremely relaxed that the air traffic just reminds you that you're in exotic territory, that you're on vacation. Things are different here! There were just 70 exhibitors at the fair, which ran January 24 through 27, so you could see it all in a few hours. Such a pleasure.<br /><br /><a href="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8098/8443741814_e254540d01_b.jpg"><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/DSC_0318.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Paintings by Grabner at Green Gallery.</span><br /><br />Milwaukee's Green Gallery installed a handful of Tony Matelli's little metal weed sculptures along the walls of its booth, below some tasty, modestly scaled white paintings by&nbsp;Michelle Grabner. A special bonus: a handsome little book of her work from 2009, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Michelle-Grabners-Paintings-Metalpoint-Monoprints/dp/0578004003">published by Poor Farm Press</a>, could be had for $5. (One of Matelli's weed pieces is on view in the "Garden" section of the great <a href="http://www.bureau-inc.com/mainsite/Exhibitions/2013/Monsalvat.html">"Monsalvat" show</a> at Bureau, which I <a href="http://galleristny.com/2013/01/monsalvat-at-bureau/">reviewed recently for <i>The Observer</i></a>.)<br /><br /><a href="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8504/8443741634_2e8534c5e4_b.jpg"><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/DSC_0317.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">The Lucie Fontaine-curated booth of Anat Ebgi and Various Small Fires, both of Los Angeles.</span><br /><br />Some other highlights: a meaty painting of a crab-claw feast by Gina Beavers at Clifton Benevento, a tight little painting on a photograph of some nude men by Aura Rosenberg and two heartbreaking printing plates by Ryan Foerster at Shoot the Lobster, a fabric piece—imprints of belts against a rich blue—by Travis Boyer at Vogt Gallery, Thomas Kovachevich abstractions at Callicoon Fine Arts, a painting hung with various figures and objects by Tom Thayer at Derek Eller.<br /><br />Anat Ebgi and Various Small Fires shared a striking booth that the rambunctious Lucie Fontaine outfit organized, filling the walls of the booth with a grid made of hundreds of little red dots. Check out that sumptuous red carpeting. Ambitious stuff. Plus (and this is a perfect marker of what a nice feel ALAC has), both Callicoon and Vogt had paintings by Sadie Benning. More images below.<br /><br /><a href="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8211/8442650217_638d2aec5f_b.jpg"><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/DSC_0316.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Anat Ebgi and Various Small Fires.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8352/8443740170_7ffc67f191_b.jpg"><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/DSC_0310.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Detail of a sculpture by Zak Kitnick at Clifton Benevento, New York.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8214/8443739238_6cb0cd56c2_b.jpg"><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/DSC_0305.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Simryn Gill at Tracy Williams, New York.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8089/8443738260_6e34e5ec57_b.jpg"><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/DSC_0300.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Thomas Kovachevich and Sadie Benning at Callicoon Fine Arts, New York.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8370/8442646463_af934ca971_b.jpg"><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/DSC_0296.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Cardi Black Box, Milan.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8195/8443736800_11939ae2c1_b.jpg"><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/DSC_0292.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Ry Rocklen at Untitled, New York.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8052/8442645563_c193dccee0_b.jpg"><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/DSC_0291.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Aura Rosenberg at Shoot the Lobster, New York.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8075/8442645367_07632887e9_b.jpg"><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/DSC_0288.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Ryan Foerster at Shoot the Lobster.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8094/8443735474_f5b6399564_b.jpg"><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/DSC_0286.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Mark Flood at Peres Projects, Berlin.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8098/8442643671_69f15fb1ce_b.jpg"><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/DSC_0282.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Hansjoerg Dobliar and Travis Boyer at Vogt Gallery, New York.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8078/8443733180_9f2b30caf4_b.jpg"><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/DSC_0274.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Marcia Hafif at Newman Popiashvili Gallery, New York.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8187/8442642681_26564d6a60_b.jpg"><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/DSC_0277.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Tom Thayer at Derek Eller Gallery, New York.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8090/8442641547_30b3f47b20_b.jpg"><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/DSC_0271.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Joshua Abelow at Brand New Gallery, Milan.</span>Andrew Russethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15959643115598272012noreply@blogger.com33tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1359843569314604044.post-20754509643732368622013-02-04T22:47:00.002-05:002013-02-04T22:50:36.625-05:00Virginia Overton in "Emergency Cheesecake" at the Whitney<iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="466" mozallowfullscreen="mozallowfullscreen" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/56353387?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0" webkitallowfullscreen="webkitallowfullscreen" width="830"></iframe> <br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Virginia Overton, in "Emergency Cheesecake," organized by Wade Guyton and&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Jay Sanders</span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">&nbsp;at the Whitney Museum, New York, November 30, 2012. </span><a href="http://vimeo.com/56353387" style="font-size: x-small;">Video: 16 Miles</a><span style="font-size: xx-small;">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://vimeo.com/user6588105" style="font-size: x-small;">[more]</a><span style="font-size: xx-small;">.</span><br /><br />The tension grew quickly during Virginia Overton's performance on November 30 in the lower-level courtyard of the Whitney Museum as part of the one-night-only <a href="http://galleristny.com/2012/11/emergency-cheesecake-sanders-guyton-plan-evening-with-performances-pickle/">"Emergency Cheesecake"</a> event organized by Wade Guyton and Jay Sanders. She stood on a little raised stage, just a few yards from where John Knight installed <i><a href="http://www.artslant.com/ny/articles/show/30367">Curb Appeal</a> </i>(1966/2012)—his mysterious hood and rain chain—along the Breuer Building's bridge during the Whitney Biennial earlier in the year. Wild country music, a wailing fiddle, played in the glassed-in space as the crowd watched. Overton plugged electrical cords into a Vlasic pickle, and presented her handiwork to the crowd. Nothing happened.&nbsp;She looked a little bit embarrassed, not sure what to do. Overton, a master of tough, hyper-minimal, and slyly humorous work, was turning herself into a circus clown, performing—failing to perform—for a packed house. Pretty endearing, terrifying stuff. The song reset. What were we waiting for? But then the magic arrived.Andrew Russethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15959643115598272012noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1359843569314604044.post-88836781393982151482012-10-20T15:32:00.002-04:002012-10-20T15:37:01.108-04:00Brunch Treats, Francis Alÿs, John Armleder, etc. [Collected]<a href="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8050/8089019407_ff52ffcd8e_b.jpg"><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/murray830.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Exterior view of Murray Guy, New York, with the lens for Zoe Leonard's camera obscura,&nbsp;<i>453 West 17th Street</i>,&nbsp;2012,&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">at center. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sixteen-miles/sets/72157631813737659/">Photo: 16 Miles</a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sixteen-miles/sets/72157631813737659/">[more]</a></span><br /><ul><li>Martin Bromirski went to Tokyo and had "brunch treats" at Misako &amp; Rosen. (Go to the neighboring posts for more reports from Japan.) [<a href="http://anaba.blogspot.com/2012/10/misako-rosen.html">Anaba</a>]</li><br><li>A look at Angela Merkel's monochromatic blazers. [<a href="http://thespectacleofthetragedy.eu/#24189987690">The Spectacle of Tragedy</a> via <a href="http://greg.org/archive/2012/10/14/merkel_jacket_matching_system.html">Greg.org</a>]</li><br><li>Former Los Angeles MOCA chief curator Paul Schimmel appeared on the Modern Art Notes podcast to talk about his "Destroy the Picture: Painting the Void, 1949–1962" show. [<a href="http://blogs.artinfo.com/modernartnotes/2012/10/the-modern-art-notes-podcast-paul-schimmel/">MAN</a>]</li><br><li>Francis Alÿs's <i>Reel-Unreel </i>(2011) film, which screens at David Zwirner in November.&nbsp;[<a href="http://strangemessenger.blogspot.com/2012/09/francis-alys.html">Strangemessenger</a>]</li><br><li>Kiki Kogelnik at&nbsp;Der Kunstverein in Hamburg, through December 30. [<a href="http://www.thisistomorrow.info/viewArticle.aspx?artId=1490&amp;Title=Kiki%20Kogelnik:%20I%20Have%20Seen%20The%20Future">This Is Tomorrow</a>]</li><br><li>Kogelnik at Simone Subal Gallery, through October 28. [<a href="http://www.simonesubal.com/here/exhibitions/kiki-kogelnik/">SSG</a>]</li><br><li>Here's a John Armleder sculpture at his great Swiss Institute show, "Selected Furniture Sculptures: 1979–2012," along with a nice music mix. The show is open through October 28. [<a href="http://and-a-half.tumblr.com/post/32789289145/fall-mix">And a Half</a>]</li><br><li>For his 1974 show at Claire Copley in Los Angeles, Michael Asher removed the wall separating the exhibition space from the office. Here's the installation view. [<a href="http://www.artandeducation.net/paper/a-document-of-regulation-and-reflexive-process-michael-asher%E2%80%99s-contractual-agreement-commissioning-works-of-art-1975/">Art &amp; Education</a> via <a href="http://strangemessenger.blogspot.com/2012/10/michael-asher.html">Strangemessenger</a>]</li><br><li>Michael Asher's <i>Writings 1973-1983 on Works 1969-1979</i>, written in collaboration with Benjamin H. D. Buchloh. [<a href="http://www.ubu.com/historical/asher/index.html">Ubuweb</a>]</li><br><li>Self promotion: an article about the sudden explosion of gallery-filling installations around town. [<a href="http://galleristny.com/2012/10/installation-art/">The New York Observer</a>]</li></ul>Andrew Russethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15959643115598272012noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1359843569314604044.post-64946200685103861702012-10-15T13:03:00.000-04:002012-10-15T13:10:01.160-04:00Susan Philipsz, 'Study for Strings,' at Documenta 13<iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="466" mozallowfullscreen="mozallowfullscreen" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/47839004?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;color=ffffff" webkitallowfullscreen="webkitallowfullscreen" width="830"></iframe><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Excerpt of Susan Philipsz, <i>Study for Strings</i>, 2012, at Documenta 13, at the Kassel Hauptbahnhof, Kassel, Germany. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sixteen-miles/collections/72157631295310956/">Video: 16 Miles</a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sixteen-miles/collections/72157631295310956/">[more]</a></span><br /><br />It's been a month since Documenta 13 ended its 100-day run in Kassel, Germany, and it feels, on the one hand, a little bit late to be writing about it. It's history. At the same time, it was so massive and so filled with various projects—its publications component alone included a series of 100 notebooks and three hulking catalogues—that I suspect many will be sifting through their memories and all of that material for a long time. I will be. <br /><br />The Kassel Hauptbahnhof, the entrance for most people arriving to the show by rail, seems like a logical place to begin talking about the show. It's a sprawling station, and dates back to the very middle of the 19th century. During World War II, it was used to ship people to concentration camps. Much of it was damaged during the war, and reconstructed in a more modern style in the 1950s. (The Documenta 13 website has <a href="http://d13.documenta.de/#venues/venues/hauptbahnhof/">nice, short summaries of many of its exhibition sites</a>.) <br /><br />In the intervening years the Hauptbahnhof has since been replaced as a hub for international train travel by the Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe station, about a seven-minute tram ride away. Except for the main, central part of the&nbsp;Hauptbahnhof, which has a few restaurants and bars, most of it was deserted throughout the day. Relatively small, nimble trams glided on a few tracks facilitating local and regional travel while rows of tracks sat largely empty.<br /><br />At the very far end of the waiting platform, a few minutes' walk away from the main station, Susan Philipsz presented one of the shows best moments, a very spare sound piece arrayed across 24 speakers. Here's her explanation from a <a href="http://d13.documenta.de/research/assets/Uploads/Studyforstrings.pdf">pamphlet that Documenta printed about the work</a>:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">I have asked a viola and a cello player to play their parts of Pavel Haas’s <i>Study for String Orchestra</i>. However I have recorded them playing each note separately so that each of the notes comes from individual speakers, which I’ve installed out on the train tracks. The effect is that the composition is fragmented, incomplete and scattered over a wide area. Expanding and extending the recordings into the space has the effect of abstracting the individual notes from the composition as a whole. The beginning is reminiscent of industry or the sound of trains moving along the tracks. The middle section is more melancholic with individual notes calling across to each other and finally the pizzicato seems to animate the cables above the tracks.</blockquote>Haas was held captive at the Theresienstadt camp, in what is now the Czech Republic, along with many of the people who were sent there through Kassel. An orchestra at the camp presented the <i>Study</i> in 1944 during a visit from the Red Cross. The composer was later killed, and the manuscript was lost, but the work has since been pieced together with the individual instruments parts. And here it was, splintered and reassembled again, on the tracks in Kassel.<br /><br />Philipsz's roughly 13-minute version of the piece was played 20 times a day, on the hour and half hour from 10 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. When I went in the middle of the afternoon in mid-August, only a few people were on the platform. (Though many of the main Documenta sites were packed with people, place off the main drag tended to be relatively quiet.)<br /><br />It started right on time, and though it was occasionally partially drowned out by announcements from various speakers along the tracks or a train or tram slowly lumbering into the station, it was never quite obscured by other sounds. Everyone lingered silently, listening as a few fleeting fragments of the past slipped through into the present.Andrew Russethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15959643115598272012noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1359843569314604044.post-39269296729429066492012-05-28T01:17:00.000-04:002012-05-28T01:23:23.013-04:00Olivier Mosset, Jeffrey Schad, and Vincent Szarek at Shoot the Lobster - Brighton Beach<a href="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8019/7196776944_80fa75b391_b.jpg"><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/mosset1.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Olivier Mosset, Jeffrey Schad, Vincent Szarek at Shoot the Lobster - Brighton Beach, May 13. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sixteen-miles/">Photo: 16 Miles</a></span><br /><br />Daniel Buren may be the most conventionally successful of the <a href="http://www.theart.com/en/bmpt.html">BMPT gang</a>, mounting very serious, large-scale installations around the world over the past few decades (he appears to have a <a href="http://www.monumenta.com/">pretty grandiose one</a> at the Grand Palais in Paris for Monumenta at the moment), but it's Olivier Mosset who seems to be having the most fun, doing handsome exhibitions at <a href="http://leokoenig.com/exhibition/view/2049">Leo Koening</a> and <a href="http://www.maryboonegallery.com/artist_info/mosset_info.html">Mary Boone</a> while also regularly popping up in <a href="http://www.triple-v.fr/?page=fiche_exposition&amp;exposition=35">fun</a> and <a href="http://www.spencerbrownstonegallery.com/Group_Shows/1107manhattanave/1107.html">unusual</a> <a href="http://www.langepult.com/expos_detail.asp/0-3-351-123-7-1-1/1-0-102-8-1-1/">group</a> <a href="http://nyuntitled.com/2011/06/29/haley-mellin-olivier-mosset/?pid=310">shows</a>. (As for the other BMPT guys, Michel Parmentier passed away in 2000, and Niele Toroni has kept a fairly low profile, at least beyond Europe, though&nbsp;<a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/08/grand-openings-at-museum-of-modern-art.html">Grand Openings gave him a nice tribute</a> last summer.)<br /><br />Best of all, Mosset has been doing all of those shows this while collecting and riding a bunch of custom motorcycles. After poking around motorcycle sites for a bit, it seems like he's developed a cult following in the biking community also. (Check out the <a href="http://southsiders-mc.blogspot.com/2011/12/olivier-mosset-motorcycle-lover.html">SouthSiders blog</a> for a nice selection of photos of him and his bikes, including a pretty tough one of him&nbsp;<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--Zfx8jd9oj8/TvEOOydPk-I/AAAAAAAAKCI/MHyYh2fM_yQ/s1600/Olivier_MossetMOCATucson-1.jpg">stopped in front of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tuscon</a>. Is that <a href="http://glasstire.com/2012/02/15/virginia-overton-at-the-power-station/">a Virginia Overton truck</a>?) <br /><br />Two Sundays ago, one of his bikes—check out the Arizona licence plate—appeared at the newly christened Shoot the Lobster - Brighton Beach, at <a href="http://www.16miles.com/2011/09/harvest-moon-at-425-oceanview-avenue.html">425 Oceanview Avenue</a>, the latest outpost of <a href="http://shootthelobster.com/">Martos Gallery's project space</a>, which is headquartered on West 29th Street but has also done shows in Miami. <br /><br />Billed as a three-person affair with Olivier Mosset, Jeffrey Schad, and Vincent Szarek, the exhibition actually consisted of only that bike. All three of the artists were responsible for it. Schad handled the work on its mechanics and Szarek did a really subtle paint job that looked a delicate, intricate bit of lace along the top of the bike. Classy work. (<a href="http://shootthelobster.com/exhibitions/brighton_beach.html">Shoot the Lobster has great photos</a>.) <br /><br />One more Mosset biking note: an old Spencer Brownstone <a href="http://www.spencerbrownstonegallery.com/Artists/Olivier_Mosset/mosset_07.html">press release notes</a> that Mosset can be seen in <i><a href="http://www.downtown81.com/">Downtown 81</a></i> "making a drive-by salutation to Jean-Michel Basquiat," so look out for that the next time you wach it. (Sadly, Netflix isn't streaming it anymore.)Andrew Russethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15959643115598272012noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1359843569314604044.post-74664515804410749752012-03-24T23:58:00.002-04:002012-03-25T09:59:59.234-04:00A Performance by Thomas Kovachevich at Show Room<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="467" mozallowfullscreen="" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/39080642?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="830"></iframe><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Video excerpt of a performance by Thomas Kovachevich at Show Room, New York, March 22, 2012. <a href="https://vimeo.com/user6588105/videos">Videos: 16 Miles</a> <a href="https://vimeo.com/user6588105/videos">[more]</a></span><br /><br /><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7090/6864910152_73b79f2f2a_b.jpg"><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/Kovachevich1.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Stills of a performance by Thomas Kovachevich at Show Room, New York, March 22, 2012. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sixteen-miles/sets/72157629292439010/">Photos: 16 Miles</a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sixteen-miles/sets/72157629292439010/">[more]</a></span><br /><br />There were faint gasps in the audience as Thomas Kovachevich began his performance on Thursday night at the <a href="http://www.showroom170.com/">Show Room gallery</a> on the Lower East Side. How could one help it? It was an utterly beguiling sight.&nbsp;Kovachevich&nbsp;sat in front of a large, low metal table holding a shallow bed of warm water, onto which he had carefully floated a thin sheet, a film of some type. Then he had sprinkled a few small, thin slices of paper on top. And somehow, against any simple explanation, they were moving. They spun themselves into pipes and slowly slinked across the film. They crept forward and rolled like waves, paused momentarily, and leapt an inch or two. <br /><br />Meanwhile, Keith Connolly, of the No-Neck Blues Band, played drones from an array of speakers, knobs, and a tape deck at the far end of the gallery. These sounded at first like long bowed chords on a cello. But then squeaks and clacks entered, and the drones grew deeper and became almost metallic. One moment it was soothing, the next sinister, as it had been when Connolly started the show, standing on top of a cymbal and working it across the floor with his feet, beating it up, falling silent only for the pouring of the warm water onto the table, and for Kovachevich to deposit those papers.<br /><br /><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7212/6864910788_5551096296_b.jpg"><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/Kovachevich1a.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7101/7011024859_df0b8bf359_b.jpg"><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/Kovachevich2.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7125/6864911148_1b45de5d52_b.jpg"><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/Kovachevich3.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7215/7011026295_649efc211b_b.jpg"><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/Kovachevich4.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="623" mozallowfullscreen="" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/39102487?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="830"></iframe><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Video excerpt from later in the performance.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7197/7011026701_9e3fb67ed2_b.jpg"><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/Kovachevich5.jpg" /></a><br /><br />As the slices of paper that&nbsp;Kovachevich had set down worked their way to the edge of the mat, they slipped into the pool and went still, soaked with water, no longer picking up the minute evaporation that apparently animated them. Looking intently at the table, audience members could see the drama unfold in front of them, or they could look up to one of the gallery walls, where a video feed showed a gigantic close up of the table, turning each of the papers' tiniest gestures into brutal, vital movements. But Kovachevich's attention was squarely on the action taking place in front of him.<br /><br />Speaking reductively, the performance was, in some sense, a hands-off, automatic version of the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6jwnu8Izy0"><i>Circus</i></a> or a free-floating, aleatoric take on <i><a href="https://vimeo.com/4581265">The Way Things Go</a></i>, those works' narratives substituted for open fields of possible events. Instead of acting as entertainer (Calder) or obsessive micromanager (Fischli/Weiss),&nbsp;Kovachevich&nbsp;served as a chemist—or, perhaps, a sorcerer—who starts the magic and then stands aside, almost becoming a voyeur like everyone else (he did very rarely adjust the lights from a tiny console at his side). He knew that those sheets of paper would pulse and roll, but everything else about their actions was up in the air—until, at least, they slipped one by one into the water and went cold. An assistant eventually brought the performance to a close, placing a large sheet over much of the pool, as if completing a burial.<br /><br /><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7205/6864912590_50b66263a3_b.jpg"><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/Kovachevich6.jpg" /></a><br /><br />Though the performance is long over, Kovachevich's work at Show Room is still literally moving right now. He has affixed long pieces of tape and grosgrain ribbon to three of the walls to make long sets of stripes that change shape based on the humidity in the room. As&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/23/arts/design/thomas-kovachevich-alpenglow.html?ref=design">Roberta Smith explained in&nbsp;<i>The New York Times</i>&nbsp;on Friday</a>:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">"When the air is dry, the tape curls around the ribbons, fogging their colors of pink, orange, yellow or blue and suggesting delicate versions of Dan Flavin’s fluorescent tubes. When the humidity rises, the tape relaxes and flattens, revealing the ribbons’ hues at full cry."&nbsp;</blockquote>What the crowd witnessed on Thursday evening was a single accelerated manifestation—a dramatic précis—of the slow, humble processes that undergird Kovachevich's heartbreakingly nuanced art.<br /><br /><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7112/6864912840_5ed86bc750_b.jpg"><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/Kovachevich7.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7190/7011027477_1e2c876a95_b.jpg"><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/Kovachevich8.jpg" /></a>Andrew Russethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15959643115598272012noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1359843569314604044.post-4076893094444321282012-03-19T23:50:00.000-04:002012-03-20T09:48:15.666-04:00Wade Guyton and Stephen Prina at Friedrich Petzel, Round 3<img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/GuytonPrina.jpg" /><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Installation view of Wade Guyton and Stephen Prina, at Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, March 10, 2012. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sixteen-miles/">Photo: 16 Miles</a></span><br /><br />They did it again. <br /><br />On the evening of Saturday, March 10, a large crowd was gathered outside the Friedrich Petzel Gallery in Chelsea, and there appeared to be an opening reception taking place inside the smaller of its two spaces. Which was peculiar, since <a href="http://www.petzel.com/exhibitions/2012-02-18_stephen-prina/">Stephen Prina's current show</a>—his seventh with the gallery—was set to run through April 28. <br /><br /><a href="http://www.petzel.com/exhibitions/2011-03-31_stephen-prina-and-wade-guyton/"><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/Guyton2011.jpg" /></a><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Stephen Prina and Wade Guyton, at Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, March 31, 2011. <a href="http://www.petzel.com/exhibitions/2011-03-31_stephen-prina-and-wade-guyton/">Photo: Petzel Gallery</a></span><br /><br />Inside, Prina's exhibition had disappeared, replaced with four paintings and a poster. It seemed to be almost an exact replica of <a href="http://www.petzel.com/exhibitions/2011-03-31_stephen-prina-and-wade-guyton/">the show I saw on March 31, 2011</a>, at the gallery and <a href="http://www.petzel.com/exhibitions/2010-02-05_wade-guyton-and-stephen-prina/">another show that took place February 5–27, 2010</a>,&nbsp;there. This was the third in Wade Guyton and Stephen Prina's ongoing collaborative exhibitions. Here's <a href="http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/37431/wade-guytonstephen-prina/">an explanation I wrote of the project back</a>&nbsp;in April,&nbsp;about the second show, which lasted for only that single day, March 31: <br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">"Guyton fired up an inkjet print and then handed it off to Prina, who unloaded a can of spray paint in the upper-left corner, its contents streaking down to a puddle on the floor in a staging of his <i>PUSH COMES TO LOVE</i> (1999-). A third collaborator, designer and writer Joseph Logan, created the bright-green exhibition poster." </blockquote>On Saturday night, Guyton's trademark canvases were the same bright, brilliant green as that nearly year-old poster—roughly the same color as nice, cheap mint ice cream. Admittedly, at the time, the reappearance of the green was pointed out to me by someone else. (In the first show, for the record, the poster was the same light pink color as the paintings in the second show: the poster in each case points forward to the next exhibition; it's a trailer for the next set of paintings.)<br /><br /><a href="http://www.petzel.com/exhibitions/2010-02-05_wade-guyton-and-stephen-prina/#"><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/Guyton2010.jpg" /></a><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Wade Guyton and Stephen Prina, at Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, February 5–27, 2010. <a href="http://www.petzel.com/exhibitions/2010-02-05_wade-guyton-and-stephen-prina/#">Photo: Petzel Gallery</a></span><br /><br />Last year, the various gestures (the one-day show, the almost exact replication of the material), however clever, felt insular and exclusionary to me: why even bother with an exhibition? In this third iteration, though, the whole enterprise became a great deal more interesting, like David Letterman repeating the same line again and again and again during a show—maybe varying the inflection slightly. It hits different each time, and it can become funnier and richer.<br /><br />An artist at the reception likened the one-night-only exhibition to the projects that Louise Lawler and Sherrie Levine staged under the name A Picture Is No Substitute for Anything in the early 1980s, which usually took the form of brief, typically one night, exhibitions or events. Art historian Gwen Allen provided some background in her recent <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=OZhNRP-wfkAC&amp;lpg=PA175&amp;dq=merinoff%20lawler&amp;pg=PA175#v=onepage&amp;q=merinoff%20lawler&amp;f=false"><i>Artists' Magazines</i> book</a>:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">"In addition to exhibiting their work in private lofts, they organized outings and social gatherings. They invited some people to the ballet on a Sunday afternoon; they served glasses of Dubonnet at the tiny painting studio of a deceased Russian émigré named Dmitri Merinoff… These events left little residue outside of invitations and memory traces, and occasional documents published in small-circulation artists' magazine[s]…"</blockquote>For Levine, it was a way of <a href="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0268/is_8_41/ai_101938560/">creating a structure apart from the mainstream</a>&nbsp;art industry:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">"I think it was a way of distancing ourselves from the art world. In those days I didn't think the art world was the real world. Very naive, but attributable to our collective youth—a kind of Holden Caulfield hangover."</blockquote>In contrast to the autarkic structures that Lawler and Levine were attempting to create, Guyton and Prina are, of course, working squarely within the art world, using a Chelsea gallery for their fleeting shows. They are established figures.<br /><br />However, what art historian Abigail Solomon-Godeau wrote of <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=QO4kL3vswH8C&amp;lpg=PA212&amp;vq=merinoff%20lawler&amp;dq=merinoff%20lawler&amp;pg=PA212#v=snippet&amp;q=merinoff%20lawler&amp;f=false">A Picture Is No Substitute for Anything</a> holds true for the Prina/Guyton exhibitions: "The activities, events, and objects produced…collectively and individually functioned to foreground the mechanisms of cultural production, exhibition and reception." (It's a description that seems to anticipate the "transitive painting" that David Joselit identifies in <a href="http://www.reenaspaulings.com/images3/0911djoselit.pdf">his 2009 essay "Painting Beside Itself."</a>)<br /><br />Guyton/Prina's exhibitions may be insular and exclusionary—even a bit sinister—in its operation, but they succeeds precisely because of those attributes. (Yes, it helps that the paintings, especially these mint ones, are stunning.)<br /><br />In terms of production, to follow Solomon-Godeau's formula, Guyton and Prina work as "unsynthetic" collaborators, as Michael Sanchez put it in <i><a href="http://www.textezurkunst.de/daily/2010/mar/25/1-1-2-michael-sanchez-wade-guyton-and-stephen-prin/">Texte zur Kunst</a></i>, performing their actions separately, like Basquiat and Warhol. (Prina apparently did his part in front of a small audience wearing gas masks, including Guyton, <a href="http://artforum.com/diary/id=30493">according to Scene &amp; Herd</a>, on Thursday evening—a sort of private, performative, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernissage">very literal vernissage</a> of the exhibition.) And they shorten the length of a show dramatically in this case, wedging it into the middle of another exhibition's run. (The previous two collaborative exhibitions took place in between Petzel shows.) The message is clear: a Guyton/Prina collaboration can break out at any moment, alighting at the gallery when one least suspects it, like a bug in a computer program that suddenly brings a system to a momentary, temporary halt.<br /><br />The brutally short time frame carries very specific threats: you might missed the show because you're otherwise involved the evening it takes place, or perhaps even worse, you just might be out of the loop, not knowing it was going to happen at all. Some of the visitors on Saturday were told about the show by the gallery or the artists, while others found out second, third, or fourth hand. The project foregrounds and embodies&nbsp;<a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=2&amp;ved=0CDAQFjAB&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reenaspaulings.com%2Fimages3%2F0911djoselit.pdf&amp;ei=8MFmT5HmK4jg0QG7oJmICA&amp;usg=AFQjCNFSqhBE1KF9pgcIG-27RlSSdQmyaA&amp;sig2=olDBCt2UeIsj-Q4vPAjQHA">the network by which ideas and rumors are spread</a>&nbsp;in the art world. Friends tell friends. Word gets out. You hope you hear about it.<br /><br />The Prina show has since been reinstalled just as it was before the Prina/Guyton show, but traces of the collaborative work remain. On the walls, paint is visible, leftover from Prina spraying the corner of the canvases and poster, and on the floors, pools of paint have accumulated after dripping down the length of the Guyton-printed canvases. Those pools and sprays of paint are indexical reminders of the one-night stand, and the fact that the Prina/Guyton paintings are gone, likely on their way to (very lucky) collectors right now. (The gallery <a href="http://www.petzel.com/exhibitions/2012-02-18_stephen-prina/">even took some new installation shots</a> of Prina's show that show the change.) <br /><br />During the Guyton/Prina exhibition, posters like the one hanging on the wall in the show (sans spray paint) were given out for free to visitors. There was even a bounty of rubberbands to protect rolled posters as they were carted off. No doubt they are now hanging on quite a few walls in apartments and offices around the city—and around the world. (The opening took place a few yards from the Independent fair.) This time, the poster's background color was an intensely dark, almost black shade of purple. It's gorgeous. The paintings next year, one hopes, will measure up.Andrew Russethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15959643115598272012noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1359843569314604044.post-20418253255417110752012-02-26T23:43:00.000-05:002012-02-27T00:58:35.684-05:00"A Choral Reading" (1972) by Gerald Ferguson at Canada<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="466" mozallowfullscreen="" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/36660618?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="830"></iframe><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Excerpts of 26 people reciting Gerald Ferguson's A Choral Reading (1972) at Canada, New York, February 11, 2011. <a href="https://vimeo.com/user6588105/videos">Video: 16 Miles</a></span><br /><br />"Someone said Gerry’s life is like trying to get through February in Nova Scotia, it’s really what Gerry’s work is," artist and curator <a href="http://www.artfagcity.com/2012/02/09/work-ethic-an-interview-with-luke-murphy-and-phil-grauer-on-gerald-ferguson/">Luke Murphy told Paddy Johnson</a> early this month, referring to the pioneering Canadian conceptual artist Gerald Ferguson (a lifelong resident of the province), who died in 2009, and whose work was recently on view at the Lower East Side's <a href="http://www.canadanewyork.com/">Canada gallery</a>. Ferguson's 1972 work, <i>A Choral Reading</i>, certainly seems to fit that description, requiring intensive labor to create—plenty of hard work to forget about life.<br /><br />To make&nbsp;<i>A Choral Reading</i>, Fergus set his 50,000-word <i>Standard Corpus of Present Day English Language Usage Arranged By Word Length and Alphabetized Within Word Length piece</i>—its title pretty much sums up its contents—for 26 voices, one voice for each letter. (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Standard-Present-Language-Arranged-Alphabetized/dp/0919616445">Amazon has a listing</a> for the work with some nice background information.) Murphy again: "I mean, what else are you going to do in your French village in Nova Scotia–which is really way bleak?"<br /><br />But it's also February-beating material when it's read aloud. When it was recited on Saturday, February 11, by a group of readers at Canada, the room was warm, the crowd convivial. It was easily one of the most pleasant, unpretentious performances or readings I have ever attended.<br /><br /><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7054/6866370937_d57e707df7_b.jpg"><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/ferguson1.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Performance stills. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sixteen-miles/sets/72157629293964533/">Photos: 16 Miles</a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sixteen-miles/sets/72157629293964533/">[more]</a></span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7202/6866371439_78f3aa3a5a_b.jpg"><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/ferguson2.jpg" /></a></div><br />The published version of Ferguson's <i>Standard Corpus</i> includes 20 sections, for words with one letter up to those with 20. At the reading at Canada, the 26 performers read through the first seven sections. Every person speaks at the same time, so each movement begins with a cacophony that gradually gives way to a few people reciting words for quite a while.<br /><br />The readers completed the first three sections—one-letter, two-letter, and three-letter words—in less than 90 seconds. The remaining four sections took about 30 minutes, with P, R, and especially S putting in lengthy performances. Readers varied their tempos, and words spilled into, through, and over each other. Some tripped over words and charged on. Though most kept a low profile, dutifully reciting their lists, a few embraced the moment with a bit of theatricality. R, a gentleman in a dark red shirt and lime-green glasses, spoke boldly at times. <br /><br />It's a hard piece not to love. Built on a ridiculously simple premise, it spirals out in weird ways, random words rubbing up against one another. One man in the audience closed his eyes and listened, while some others whispered to each other, one ear on the action. As the piece fell down to four, then three, then two voices reading seven-letter words (the last few moments are recorded on the video above), most everyone became quiet and watched. S brought it home with "systems." And then there was applause. <br /><br />There are artist names sprinkled throughout the thousands of words—I heard Ryman, Suvero, and Tuttle, who are part of the same generation as Ferguson, men born in the 1930s. Unlike those artists, though, Ferguson never achieved widespread acclaim, despite being among the first generation of North American conceptual artists and appearing in Kynaston McShine's famed "Information" show in 1970 at the Museum of Modern Art. (The <a href="http://www.moma.org/docs/press_archives/4483/releases/MOMA_1970_July-December_0003_69.pdf?2010">press release and checklist for that show</a>, with notes about Furguson's [sic] work is available on MoMA's site.) <br /><br />It's not just an art-historical problem. The market has also not been kind to Ferguson, Canada co-owner Phil Grauer made clear to Johnson. "That painting," he said, referring to an early work, "that’s from 1968 and it’s like $18,000. I sell paintings by 33 year olds for that much. The show is very painful like that." It takes a lot of work to bring under-known artists into a canon (and to boost their prices). But one way to start in the case of Ferguson would be to stage a few more of these readings. All you need are 26 art students—or just 26 people who can read. Once the work is over, one is left with a nice-size group for a party, and plenty of camaraderie to go along with it, enough to trounce February in even the least hospitable places. <br /><br /><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7068/6866373819_6bceb0bc02_b.jpg"><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/ferguson3.jpg" /></a>Andrew Russethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15959643115598272012noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1359843569314604044.post-35375992251407917102012-01-16T23:36:00.002-05:002012-01-16T23:37:24.486-05:00Bontecou at FreedmanArt, Cesarco Apes Broodthaers, Mekas, etc. [Collected]<a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7009/6659612025_b2981f89b9_b.jpg"><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/bontecou.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Installation view of Lee Bontecou, "Recent Work: Sculpture and Drawing," at FreedmanArt, New York, through Feb. 11, 2012. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sixteen-miles/sets/72157628906324755/">Photos: 16 Miles</a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sixteen-miles/sets/72157628906324755/"><span id="goog_1207352035"></span>[more]</a></span><br /><ul><li><b>Arthur C. Danto</b> quoting <b>Donald Judd</b> on <b>Lee Bontecou</b>, in an article headlined "A Tribe Called Quest": "The image extends from something as social as war to something as private as sex, making one an aspect of the other." [<a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/tribe-called-quest">The Nation</a>]</li></ul><ul><li><b>Alejandro Cesarco</b> reproduced the stationary that&nbsp;<b>Marcel Broodthaers</b> made for his 1969 <i>Musee d'Art Moderne, Departement des Aigles</i>. [<a href="http://centrefortheaestheticrevolution.blogspot.com/2012/01/microclima-at-kunsthalle-zurich-museo.html">Centre for the Aesthetic Revolution</a>]</li></ul><ul><li>"Nothing out of the ordinary, / from one day to the next." An poem from the early 1970s by <b>Jonas Mekas</b>. [<a href="http://joshuaabelow.blogspot.com/2012/01/poem-by-jonas-mekas.html">Art Blog Art Blog</a>]</li></ul><ul><li><b>Martha Rosler</b> talks about the movies. Her all-time favorites: <i>Alphaville</i> and <i>Kiss Me Deadly</i>. [<a href="http://www.cynephile.com/2011/12/martha-rosler-goes-to-the-movies/">Cynephile</a>]</li></ul><ul><li><b>Robert Morris</b> sentence-diagram drawings for <b>Merce Cunningham</b>. [<a href="http://nicholasknight.net/wordpress/?p=273">Eponanonymous</a>]</li></ul><ul><li>"Bob made it, but Jasper made it art." <b>Edward Meneeley</b> on <b>Rauschenberg</b>'s <i>Erased de Kooning Drawing</i> (1953, maybe). [<a href="http://greg.org/">Greg.org</a>]</li></ul><ul><li>"What about your cell phone? Do you leave it on when you work? Do you like getting calls or texts in the studio?" <b>Nick Lemmin</b> interviews <b>Grayson Revoir</b>. [<a href="http://www.lemminsonline.com/?p=73">Lemminsonline</a> via <a href="http://weststreetgallery.tumblr.com/post/14118227115/grayson-revoir-gives-intimate-interview">West Street Gallery</a>]</li></ul><ul><li>The Lion Queen. [<a href="http://jenbee.tumblr.com/post/15605770540/the-lion-queen-shes-a-badass">Ms. Jen Bekman</a>]</li></ul><ul><li>"It seems silly to feel sorry for successful artists, or for rich people in general, but in the end, there is no attitude to strike that can beat the house." — <b>Katy Siegel</b> on<b> Damien Hirst</b>. [<a href="http://www.artforum.com/diary/id=30021">Artforum.com</a>]</li></ul><ul><li>"American dream." [<a href="http://michaelnagle.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/PANI01.jpg">PANI</a>]</li></ul>Andrew Russethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15959643115598272012noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1359843569314604044.post-47201920921683926692012-01-15T23:44:00.000-05:002012-01-16T00:54:04.505-05:00Bjarne Melgaard in "Grisaille" at Luxembourg & Dayan<a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7018/6659608543_ece27d2068_b.jpg"><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/melgaarddayan2.jpg" /></a><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Bjarne Melgaard installation in the bathroom of Luxembourg &amp; Dayan, New York. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sixteen-miles/sets/72157628787216975/with/6659610167/">Photos: 16 Miles</a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sixteen-miles/sets/72157628787216975/with/6659610167/">[more]</a></span><br /><br />On one wall of <a href="http://luxembourgdayan.com/">Luxembourg &amp; Dayan</a>'s fourth-floor bathroom, where he built his latest installation, Norwegian artist Bjarne Melgaard hung a letter that he wrote late last year to murderer Teodoro Baez, who is serving a life sentence in Pontiac, Illinois, <a href="http://www.ajs.org/jc/death/2004/jc_death_cases.asp">for killing two people with a samurai sword</a> after a dispute about drugs. Baez's had been sentenced to die, but he was <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=8&amp;ved=0CE8QFjAH&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailyherald.com%2Farticle%2F20110309%2Fnews%2F799999053%2Fphotos%2FEP6%2F&amp;ei=UbYTT4fBE6Lk0QHp5d2GAw&amp;usg=AFQjCNEulhQ_SX7YIvhe12LsSKZZpnrerQ&amp;sig2=2HJNzy3_ViDS9BbdLvF8fg">spared last year</a> when Illinois abolished the death penalty. <br /><br /><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7033/6659608877_7a0ac30b1b_b.jpg"><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/melgaarddayan3.jpg" /></a><br /><br />In his letter to Baez, Melgaard introduces himself as "a contemporary artist" and explains that he is working on a show at a New York gallery. "I own several letters and drawings of yours," he explains, adding that he included those works in a group show he curated at <a href="http://maccarone.net/">Maccarone</a> last year, "The Social Failure," a one-week addendum of sorts to his <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/12/18/arts/design/12182011_RSMITH-6.html">well reviewed exhibition</a> "After Shelley Duval '72 (Frogs on the High Line)," whose&nbsp;artist list included more than two dozen murderers, including Ted Bundy, Phillip Jablonski, and John Wayne Gacy, the serial killer who is believed to have killed more than 33 young boys and who took up painting after his arrest.<br /><br /><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7158/6659610167_783e31eba1_b.jpg"><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/melgaarddayan4.jpg" /></a><br /><br />Melgaard's exhibition was actually not Gacy's first time participating in a contemporary art show: that credit goes to—as far as I know—Mike Kelley's <a href="http://www.renaissancesociety.org/site/Exhibitions/Images.Mike-Kelley-Three-Projects-Half-a-Man-From-My-Institution-to-Yours-and-Pay-for-Your-Pleasure.110.2373.html">1988 piece <i>Pay for Your Pleasure</i></a>, which included some 40 painted banners that depict various artists and intellectuals paired with an unsavory or just simply uncomfortable quotations. For instance, one from Oscar Wilde: "The fact of a man being a poisoner is nothing against his prose." (<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=1rdJx5KnJzkC&amp;pg=PA27&amp;dq=%22i+want+to+sing+murder%22&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=JrcTT7C1Nur30gGfr428Aw&amp;ved=0CFAQ6AEwBjgK#v=onepage&amp;q=%22i%20want%20to%20sing%20murder%22&amp;f=false">Google Books has the complete list of the quotations</a>&nbsp;from a Kelley anthology.) An artwork by a mass murderer—the person changed based on the location—came at one end of the installation. <br /><br /><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7015/6659607791_883e994f93_b.jpg"><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/melgaarddayan1.jpg" /></a><br /><br />Here's <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/1992-07-05/entertainment/ca-2574_1_american-art">Christopher Knight explaining how that worked</a>:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">"At the 1988 debut of 'Pay for Your Pleasure' in Chicago, a painting by mass murderer John Wayne Gacy was shown in the hall. At the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, which owns the installation, a drawing by 'Freeway Killer' William Bonin has been displayed. And, at the Institute of Contemporary Arts here, in the compact, 12-year survey of the L.A.-based artist's work that has been traveling in Europe since April, the corridor leads to a blocky portrait-bust, created in cement in 1977 by Glasgow gangster Jimmy Boyle. The piece gets made wryly site-specific, as the murderer's art changes with each location in which 'Pay for Your Pleasure' is shown."</blockquote>Peter Schjedahl <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=74WTcyn2Lg0C&amp;lpg=PA57&amp;dq=schjeldahl%20gacy&amp;pg=PA57#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false">wrote about it too</a>, back when he was at <i>7 Days</i>&nbsp;and it was on view at Metro Pictures.<br /><br />But back to Melgaard's letter. He goes on to tell Baez that he is "interested in establishing a correspondence," and asks if he is willing to "collaborate to the extent you are able" on an upcoming exhibition. It's <i>Pay for Your Pleasure</i> the sequel, apparently, in which the artist throws himself into even more twisted, abject ethical and moral situations. It sounds like a pretty horrendous idea—the artist taking Jerry Magoo's <a href="http://jerrymagoo.blogspot.com/2010_05_01_archive.html">comparison of him to Slipknot</a> to some horrific extreme—but we'll see how it all pans out. (Melgaard, for the record, has an installation opening at <a href="http://www.galleristny.com/2012/01/bjarne-melgaard-plans-show-at-karma-bookstore/">Karma on January 19</a>.) <br /><br />The piece at Luxembourg &amp; Dayan, though, was pure Melgaard, the superb overload of ideas and form that everyone has been rightfully swooning over for the past few years all shoved into a tiny bathroom: chalkboard walls scrawled with messages, pictures of Baez, a sink filled with Diet Coke cans, empty prescription bottles (labeled for Melgaard, no less) and pills, obscene drawings, a photograph of a ferocious-looking jaguar. All wonderful. <br /><br />Besides serving as a stellar advertisement to encourage visitors to toss an installation into that unused bathroom they have, Melgaard's work was there as part of the gallery's "Grisaille" show, whose <a href="http://press_release_2011/L&amp;D_Grisaille_PR.pdf">news release</a> noted that grey "connotes estrangement, gloom, neutrality, rigor, seriousness, objectivity, gravitas, elegance, neutrality, depression, practicality, and calm." Which are all words one could associate, in various places, rather handily with Melgaard's installation. Hovering now in this in-between space, will the artist know—will we know?—when he crosses over into something else?Andrew Russethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15959643115598272012noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1359843569314604044.post-86937573021307747122011-12-26T23:31:00.000-05:002011-12-27T01:41:59.973-05:00Yorgos Sapountzis: From Simone Subal Gallery to the Bowery to the Manhattan Bridge<a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7170/6537977437_8d094eb6ff_b.jpg"><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/Sapountzis1.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Yorgos Sapountzis performing as part of "Head Zest, New Walls," at Simone Subal, December 18, 2011. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sixteen-miles/sets/72157628486637619/">Photos: 16 Miles</a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sixteen-miles/sets/72157628486637619/">[more]</a></span><br /><br />It sounded like a large metal object was crashing down the stairs of the building that houses the <a href="http://www.simonesubal.com/">Simone Subal Gallery</a>, at 131 Bowery. A group of perhaps two dozen people in the second-floor space looked at each other—was it starting?—and a few headed toward the stairs. The rest followed behind them. <br /><br />A few minutes earlier, Greek artist Yorgos Sapountzis (whose exhibition is on view at the gallery through January 22) had gone in the in the same direction, after handing out simple fabric capes (teal, yellow, forest green, red) and tall, thin metal poles to some in the crowd. I received a brown cape and another piece of fabric—"Hold his," the artist said in a soft, deep voice, as he moved to the next person—but no pole. <br /><br />Sapountzis&nbsp;was now at the bottom of the stairs, holding strings that were looped through two large square sheets of metal. He opened the door and the crowd streamed outside behind him, some wrapping their capes around themselves to block the cold. It was freezing, perhaps the coldest it has been so far this winter. <br /><br /><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7170/6537977985_5fbf60f83e_b.jpg"><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/Sapountzis2.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7020/6537979243_b3315cc2f5_b.jpg"><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/Sapountzis3.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7169/6537979911_953831426a_b.jpg"><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/Sapountzis4.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7141/6537980125_1760b86fdb_b.jpg"><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/Sapountzis5.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><div class="p1">The artist set off south on the Bowery, walking quickly and dragging the metal sheets behind him, which cracked and clanked and crashed occasionally into a garbage can or a parking sign. Shoppers, store owners and people waiting for buses watched him as he darted around those strolling the sidewalks, gingerly maneuvering his sharp sheets with him.</div><div class="p2"><br /></div><div class="p1">At the corner of Bowery and Grand, he suddenly stopped and faced the caped masses, staring them down. He was wearing a black hooded jacket, grey pants and scuffed white sneakers, and he held a hammer in one hand, duct tape and string in the other. He was breathing heavily, and looked a little menacing.&nbsp;He crouched down and began beating the metal with his hammer, punching sharp indentations into the panel with each blast. Then he was off again, marching down the Bowery.&nbsp;</div><div class="p2"><br /></div><div class="p1">He stopped outside a branch of the Chinatown Federal Savings Bank. Someone was waiting for him there: a man wearing a long jacket, knit cap and gloves—all black. He had a hammer in his pocket, and a dark beard like the artist's. The two men faced each other and, in unison, enacted a series of movements—waving one arm, then the other, as they stepped about and then squatted, grabbing their ankles.&nbsp;</div><div class="p2"><br /></div><div class="p1">The metal panels were handed off to two members of the audience audience, who looked surprised. Where were we heading? What were we being made to do? (There was one hint: the announcement for the event had included a ghostly image of the Manhattan Bridge, which was still a few blocks south.) The new member of the entourage set us marching further south, as Sapountzis collapsed onto the ground. He appeared moments later, sprinting down the street.</div><br /><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7148/6537980423_f6647705fc_b.jpg"><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/Sapountzis6.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7144/6537980693_b8b32d77e2_b.jpg"><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/Sapountzis7.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7015/6537981839_781f4d647a_b.jpg"><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/Sapountzis8.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7022/6537982999_811931d00e_b.jpg"><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/Sapountzis9.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7017/6537984091_a708206961_b.jpg"><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/Sapountzis10.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7004/6537984667_80f24a4752_b.jpg"><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/Sapountzis11.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7023/6537985835_7df614f123_b.jpg"><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/Sapountzis12.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7015/6537987273_50531ac370_b.jpg"><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/Sapountzis13.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7158/6537988045_bd42a7b90e_b.jpg"><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/Sapountzis14.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><div class="p1">More men were waiting along the path—outside another store and on a triangle near the exit ramp of the Manhattan Bridge—and at each rendezvous the same ritualistic movements were repeated before the marching resumed. After the last meeting, Sapountzis and his three associates headed up toward the Manhattan Bridge, past a dark police van, to an enormous expanse of cement—I had no idea it was so big—that leads up to the bridge, just east of the Bowery.</div><div class="p2"><br /></div><div class="p1">The crowd members formed an arc around the performers, keeping their distance as the four men performed their movements once more. A young child—probably just a few years old—broke from the group and approached the men as they moved, trying to make sense of it. As this occurred, the police van (one seems always to be present at the base of the bridge) drove off: nothing to see here, apparently.</div><div class="p2"><br /></div><div class="p1">All four men huddled together, and then the three who had joined along the way violently attacked a metal sheet with their hammers. It was deafening, so loud that many stepped back or held their ears. Meanwhile,&nbsp;Sapountzis&nbsp;was going wild, darting about with a tape measure, running it behind and around the crowd. What was he trying to build?</div><div class="p2"><br /></div><div class="p1">The artist disappeared behind the tall stone columns at the bridge's mouth, followed only by the brave child, and took a makeshift flag—made by taking two metal poles and capes from the crowd—to the edge of the roadway, waving it in madly, broadly, even leaping from the&nbsp;ground as he waved it. Cars streamed off the road behind him. Then he dropped the flag, walked over to the crowd, and it ended with applause. Fabric and metal and hammers were scattered across the cement field.</div><br /><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7159/6537990155_4929f9ab91_b.jpg"><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/Sapountzis15.jpg" /></a><br /><br />The evening was, in some sense, a reminder of the possibilities that are present in public in any city, even one in which public space is becoming increasingly regulated, regimented, and corporatized. Writing a week later, it all still feels like a wonderful and unlikely success: a small team of people in ridiculous costumes moving through the city with hammers, steel panels and poles—everything that one would need to build a modest, temporary encampment—entirely uncontested by the police, just yards from one of the city's landmarks, and about half a mile from both the headquarters of the NYPD and City Hall. <br /><br />What would have happened if the police had arrived, if they had asked Sapountzis—or, even more intriguing, someone blindly following along—what was going on? <br /><br />But perhaps that line of questions lends an air of danger to the performance that was not quite there. There was nothing nakedly illegal about the gathering, though the number of people involved brushed up against <a href="http://www.nyclu.org/content/know-your-rights-demonstrating-new-york-city">the 20-person limit for a permit-less public assembly</a> in a New York City park. (It's not exactly how one would define the space where the performance peaked and concluded.) I suspect that&nbsp;Sapountzis&nbsp;must have at least considered the possibility that the police would have dropped by. He would have been crazy not to do so. But they never arrived. <br /><br />Writing in January's <i>Artforum</i>, sociologist Saskia Sassen argued that this year's Occupy movements can be understood as a masterful remaking of Zuccotti Park, a site rich with corporate interests, as a new territory, in full view of the camera. "People becoming present and, crucially, becoming <i>visible</i> to one another can alter the character of their powerlessness," Sassen writes. <br /><br />Sapountzis's work was bound up with issues of the public and private, and the control of space in urban areas, that are not dissimilar from those raised by Occupy Wall Street. However, in contrast to the media spectacle of the OWS protests, it addressed its audience, and the city itself, on more intimate, specialized and even obscure terms. We were all visible only fleetingly, unable to offer an explanation.<br /><br />With many Occupy encampments across the United States now without a permanent home, the energies they channeled have been rendered more diffuse. Fittingly,&nbsp;Sapountzis's work seemed to follow this organizational logic, asking what&nbsp;small groups can accomplish in the streets today, and what plans, however provisional, can be hatched by a handful of people with shared interests, or just four men and some willing participants.Andrew Russethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15959643115598272012noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1359843569314604044.post-65026666823395816452011-12-17T11:12:00.000-05:002011-12-17T12:29:43.658-05:00May 11, 1975: The War Is Over!<img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7156/6526131793_24182023c3_o.jpg" /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>Surf's Up: The Aesthetics of Disappearance</i>, Vol. 1, No. 1, edited and with an introduction by Bob Nickas, page 62, The W.C., #39, Vol. 4, No. 3. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sixteen-miles/">Photo: 16 Miles</a></span><br><br><blockquote>"One of the suppositions which emerged early on from the seminar was the distinct possibility that it's the wrong artists who stop working; that they are the ones who were meant to carry on; it's everyone else who should have packed up and left." — Bob Nickas</blockquote><br>On Thursday evening, White Columns held a release party for <i>Surf's Up: The Aesthetics of Disappearance</i>, a collection of "reflections on the artist who disappears." Edited by Bob Nickas, who is perpetrating something of a disappearing act himself (he has said he will no longer curate shows in New York City, and he no longer attends openings, dinners, and so forth), the book came out of a seminar he taught at NYU this semester called "Disappearing Acts." Which sounds like a great time. <br><br>Nickas fans will want to pick it up for his introductory essay, which brings Gretta Garbo and Howard Hughes into the discussion of self-absented artists, a topic the curator-writer has addressed in essays on <a href="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0268/is_8_41/ai_101938565/">Laurie Parsons</a>, Lee Lozano, Cady Noland and others over the years. He shares that Noland told him back in 1994, "I don't want to have another show in New York for at least five years." And here we are, 17 years later. (He also brings up Maurizio Cattelan's supposed retirement and the Occupy movement, and describes Occupy Artists Space as "misguided.") <br><br>Seminar participants also contributed pieces, and there are a few choice ones, like an essay by <a href="http://sammckinniss.com/">Sam McKinniss</a> about the 2007 suicides of artist Jeremy Blake and his wife, the filmmaker and writer Theresa Duncan, about which <i><a href="http://nymag.com/news/features/36091/">New York</a></i> and <i><a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2008/01/suicides200801">Vanity Fair</a></i> published articles. <br><br>Like McKinniss, the first work by Blake that I saw was the cover he did for Beck's <i>Sea Change</i> album, and I saw and admired his art at various Whitney Biennials. Then he and Duncan died. People like Parsons, Lozano, Noland, and the other famously-absent artists (Charlotte Posenenske, Bas Jan Ader, and Christopher D'Arcangelo, to name three more) had vanished well before I became seriously interested in art, but not Blake and Duncan, who once lived a few blocks from where I live, over in the rectory at St. Mark's Church on Second Avenue. Though I am embarrassed to admit this, since I never knew them personally, their story has always stuck with me, and has seemed to ask this unpleasant, awkward question: Who else among today's artists will vanish? <br><br>There is also a nice essay by <a href="http://daveyhawkins.com/">Davey Hawkins</a> about the California artist Gary Beydler, a onetime student of Robert Irwin, and <a href="http://canyoncinema.com/catalog/film/?i=4325">his <i>Hand Held Day</i> film</a>, which involved the artist holding a mirror almost perfectly still in the desert for 14 hours, to create a five-minute work in the 1970s. ("I drank and ate a minimum," Beydler is quoted saying.) <br><br><i>Surf's Up</i> has four different covers (I opted for the one that features <a href="http://www.artcat.com/exhibits/15735">a young and sporty Hughes</a> posing with a bicycle), and is printed in a first edition of only 100, so it seems destined to circulate rather elusively, much like many of the artists that it addresses. <br><br>And, on the final page, there is the image posted above, a poster for a concert in Central Park with Phil Ochs and other musicians marking the end of the Vietnam War, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/16/opinion/a-formal-end-to-the-iraq-war.html?_r=1">which is timely</a>.Andrew Russethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15959643115598272012noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1359843569314604044.post-57488365437224501752011-11-27T21:40:00.017-05:002011-11-28T21:11:17.096-05:00Nancy Arlen in "Zoom, Shift, Abstract" at Simone Subal Gallery<a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7144/6415022721_6a5d72c297_b.jpg"><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/arlen0.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:xx-small">Nancy Arlen, <i>Untitled</i>, ca. 1981, cast polyester resin, mounting hardware, 12 1/2 x 9 1/4 x 12 3/4 in., in "Zoom, Shift, Abstract" at Simone Subal Gallery, 131 Bowery, 2nd Floor, New York. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sixteen-miles/sets/72157628183575375/">Photos: 16 Miles</a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sixteen-miles/sets/72157628183575375/">[more]</a></span><br /><br />What is your stance on Energism? Is it the hottest thing today? Is it enduring a backlash, or is there a comeback underway?<br /><br />Truthfully, if I ever knew about Energism, I had forgotten about it until this afternoon, when I visited <a href="http://www.simonesubal.com/here/exhibitions/zoom-shift-abstract/">"Zoom, Shift, Abstract,"</a> a group show at the <a href="http://www.simonesubal.com/here/exhibitions/zoom-shift-abstract/">Simone Subal Gallery</a> on the Lower East Side, where there are two works by Nancy Arlen, who was, for a brief moment, grouped under that term by the critic and historian Ronny Cohen in the late 1970s.<br /><br /><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7164/6415022305_83e1bb17f2_b.jpg"><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/arlen1.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:xx-small">Nancy Arlen, <span style="font-style:italic;">Untitled</span>, ca. 1981, cast polyester resin, mounting hardware, 20 1/2 x 13 3/4 x 12 in.</span><br /><br /><div>In a 1998 obituary for Arlen, Artnet's estimable <a href="http://www.artnet.com/magazine_pre2000/news/stone/stone4-3-98.asp">Rosetta Stone declared Energism</a> "still-born," while Roberta Smith summarized it this way in 2007, in a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/23/arts/design/23wartlist.html?scp=5&amp;sq=energism&amp;st=cse">capsule version</a> of her review of Mitchell Algus's "Canal Street" show: "The brief and hapless trend sometimes called Energism parlayed the plastics and glitter of the discount stores of Canal Street and a revived interest in Russian and Polish Constructivism into a punked-out version of Post-Minimalism."<br /><br />According to Subal, Arlen did indeed find her materials at the plastic shops of Canal Street, just a few blocks from the show. But only for a brief period: she dropped out of the art world in the mid 1980s and, despite a 1998 one-person show at Mitchell Algus, her work has appeared in exhibitions only very infrequently. Few artists from Energism, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/27/arts/art-guide.html?pagewanted=all">Smith wrote</a>, in a capsule review of the Algus solo show, "have suffered such complete oblivion"<br /><br />Arlene had more success in the music world, drumming for No Wave pioneers Mars, one of the four bands to appear on the Brian Eno-produced compilation <i>No New York</i>. But here she is at a new contemporary gallery, if only momentarily, with these two sculptures, which look like they could be reject inflatable pool toys or deformed Ziploc bags, filled with gelatin or formaldehyde, injected with oozing colors, and made to float off the wall. They are pretty stunning.<br /><br /><object width="420" height="315"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/XTwKq0ZzjRg?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/XTwKq0ZzjRg?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="420" height="315" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object><br /><span style="font-size:xx-small">Mars, "Plane Separation," from <span style="font-style:italic;">Mars: Live NYC 1977-1978</span></span><br /><br /><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7021/6415023545_329b5dd7b5_b.jpg"><img src="http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss244/16milesofstring/arlen2.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:xx-small">A work by Rey Akdogan, <i>who cares</i>, 2011, light source, packaging foam, textured plastic filter, cotton strings, plexiglass, electric tape, 1 x 24 in., on the stairwell of 131 Bowery, New York.</span><br /><br />One addition: when making your way up to Subal, take a peek at the tiny light highlighting the building's wonderfully weird stairs, a piece by Rey Akdogan, who also has work in the show.</div>Andrew Russethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15959643115598272012noreply@blogger.com17